President Obama is putting immigration reform front and center on the political agenda, bringing together political, business, and religious leaders in a major White House meeting to focus on "fixing our nation's broken immigration system for our 21st-century economic and national security needs." But America's status as a magnet for immigrants already appears to be slipping, according to a new comprehensive measure developed by the British Council and the Brussels-based Migration Policy Group...
... I asked my colleague Charlotta Mellander to compare the MIPEX scores to a variety of other measures that have been seen to have a strong bearing on prosperity: economic output, innovation, entrepreneurship, and the broader happiness of nations. With our usual caveat that our analysis only points to associations between variables, that we do not make any claims about causation, these scatter charts tell an intriguing story....
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