Scientists, engineers, and physicians from abroad: fiscal years 1966 and 1967.
National Science Foundation (U.S.) Imprint Main A: [Washington; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1969]
In 1973, MIT researcher Sheldon Friedman (p. 41) wrote the following of skilled immigrants coming to the US in search of work: “A further consequence of the 1965 Immigration Act has been the reversal in relative skill-intensiveness of migration from developed and less-developed countries. Immigration from LDCs [“less developed countries”], formerly less skill-intensive than immigration from DCs [“developed countries”], has now become more skill intensive than the latter.”
This data, published four years earlier, corroborates Friedman’s conclusions and attests to a growing labor diversity in skilled markets, such as natural science, engineering, and medicine. According to Table 6 (p. 19), the largest contingent of physicians and surgeons that immigrated to the United states in 1967 came from the Philippines, though in 14% of those cases, immigrants had resided in another country (mostly Canada) before arriving to the United States.
