Student Projects:Outsourcing PPF:Recommendations

David Dorwin: Let's discuss our recommendations here so that we can decide on them before someone spends a lot of time writing up a recommendation that we don't use. Once we have the basic recommendations defined, we can refine them and look for any more sources or data that we need to strenghten them.

That said, I added some recommendations to the paper last weekend. They are in the future section. Both of the ideas stem from the research I did and are well supported by my other contributions. Here are short descriptions of the recommendations. Read the full recommendations in the paper.

• Allow foreign students (with student visas) to compete for immigration visas rather than automatically kicing them out of the country.
• Change immigration policy preferences to favor skilled/educated people. To account for the incresed number of skilled/educated immigrants, reduce the preference for family ties.

Stuart Schimler: I agree with David, as we have discussed those things in a personal e-mail exchange. I would also like to add to the history section the tax breaks or advantages that textile factories got when moving down south. I was looking for evidence on it for my draft, but didn't find it. I will continue to search the academic literature. I know it is out there because it was also mentioned in lecture tonight.