Labor Shortages and Comprehensive Immigration Reform

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009, from 9 AM-5 PM

Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC

Agenda

Registration and Continental Breakfast (8:30-9:00 AM)

Welcome and Introductory Remarks (9:00-9:05 AM)
• Ross Eisenbrey, Economic Policy Institute (EPI)

Panel: What is a labor shortage and how do they arise? (9:05-9:45 AM)
• Philip Martin, UC Davis - Comparative Immigration & Integration Program
• Burt Barnow, Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies

Occupation Case Studies (9:45 AM-noon)

Science Technology Engineering & Math Workers (9:45-10:15 AM)
• Ron Hira, Rochester Institute of Technology
• Norman R. Augustine, Lockheed Martin (retired)

Special Education Workers (10:15-10:45 AM)
• Erling E. Boe, Professor of Education, and Co-Director, Center for Research and Evaluation in Social Policy, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
• Phoebe Gillespie, National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE)

Physical Therapists (10:45-11:15 AM)
• Marc Goldstein, American Physical Therapy Association
• Paul R. Rao, National Rehabilitation Hospital

Construction (11:15-11:45 AM)
• Dale Belman, Michigan State University

Lunch and Keynote Addresses (12:00-12:30 PM)
• Ray Marshall, former Secretary of Labor, University of Texas
• Demetrios Papademetriou, Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

Panel: How can labor shortages be identified? (12:30-1:30 PM)
• Malcolm S. Cohen, Employment Research Corporation
• Philip Martin, UC Davis - Comparative Immigration & Integration Program
• Navjeet Singh, Commonwealth Corporation

Panel: Best practices from abroad (1:30-3:30 PM)
• England - Martin Ruhs, Migration Advisory Committee
• Ireland - Brian McCormick, FÁS
• Canada - Karl Flecker, Canadian Labour Congress

Panel: Structuring an independent commission to determine employment-based immigration levels by identifying labor shortages (3:30-5:00 PM)
• Doris Meissner, MPI, former Commissioner of INS
• Beryl Howell, United States Sentencing Commission
• Mark Regets, National Science Foundation and Institute for the Study of Labor
• Marc R. Rosenblum, Migration Policy Institute

Location: Economic Policy Institute, 1333 H St., NW, East Tower/Suite 300, Washington, DC (near McPherson Square Metro and Metro Center stations)