Anna Boucher

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a method and preliminary findings from a database that systematically measures the character and stringency of immigration policies, based on the selection of that data for nine countries between 1999 and 2008, and challenge the idea that any one country is systematically the most or least restrictive toward admissions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a method and preliminary findings from a database that systematically measures the character and stringency of immigration policies, based on the selection of that data for nine countries between 1999 and 2008, and challenge the idea that any one country is systematically the most or least restrictive toward admissions.

TL;DR: The International Migration Policy and Law Analysis (IMPALA) database as discussed by the authors provides a comprehensive cross-national, time-series database of such policies, rendering the analysis of policy trends across and within these areas difficult at best.

TL;DR: The authors argued that Australia's skilled immigration scheme disadvantages female applicants through its construction both of economic independence and "skill" and compared it with Canada's skilled migration law and regulations, which are audited by gender mainstreaming tools, to ascertain what role, if any, gender-based analysis plays in identifying and rectifying the potential gender inequalities produced by skilled immigration selection.

TL;DR: A number of important collected books have been edited on the topic (Bhagwati and Hanson, 2009; Boeri et al, 2012; Chiswick, 2010, Ruhs and Anderson, 2010; Triadafilopoulos, 2013) but to date, there has been no single special issue produced on skilled immigration policies in comparative perspective as discussed by the authors.