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Declining Numbers of Foreign Students and America's Science and Engineering Enterprise
Author(s) -
Lowell B. Lindsay
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international migration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.681
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1468-2435
pISSN - 0020-7985
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2005.00329.x
Subject(s) - immigration , science and engineering , higher education , engineering education , job market , political science , sociology , labour economics , demographic economics , economic growth , economics , engineering , engineering ethics , law , work (physics) , mechanical engineering
The enterprise of science and engineering (S&E) is powerfully affected by the role of immigrants in institutions of higher education and in US labour markets (Freeman et al., 2004). Especially since the 1970s and increasingly in the 1990s, educational institutions and labour markets have experienced steady increases of foreign students and workers and have come to expect more of the same. Yet, since 2001 there have been notable downturns in the number of foreign students applying and attending US institutions of higher education.