Migration Patterns: Media Coverage and William Kerr

migration patterns: Four countries — the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Australia — attract the vast majority of the world immigrants, the researchers have found, according to CBC. U.S. should pay Canada for top talent, tech CEO says Despite alarmist political movements and media coverage, the reality is that global immigration today has been largely steady for the past half-century, the data shows. In a working paper, researchers Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Çaǧlar Özden and Christopher Parsons looked at migration patterns in recent decades to track any changes in either the volume of people moving around the world, or where they are coming from or going to. Worldwide, the percentage of people who live in a country other than the one they were born in is the same today as it was in 1960: about three per cent. Outside of a recent surge in people leaving certain parts of the world as refugees, there a clear pattern among people with education and above-average income levels voluntarily moving for economic reasons. "A pattern is emerging in which these high-skilled migrants are departing from a broader range of countries and heading to a narrower range of countries," the paper said, "in particular, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia." Skilled immigrants to get express entry to fill labour needs To be sure, the United States is still at the top of that list, well ahead of the next three. That not to say, however, that immigration trends are steady and unchanging. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.