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• Position: Science and engineering workers of United States - Brief Article

Freeman presents four propositions showing that changes in the global job market for science and engineering (S&E) workers are eroding U.S. dominance in S&E, which diminishes the country's comparative advantage in high-tech goods and services and threatens the country's global economic leadership. First, the U.S. share of the world's S&E graduates is declining rapidly as European and Asian universities, particularly from China, have granted more S&E degrees. Second, the U.S. job market has worsened for young S&E worker and engineers relative to many other high-level occupations, which discourages U.S. students from going on in these fields, but which still attracts large immigrant flows, particularly from developing countries. Third, populous low-income countries such as China and India can...