Economist Gordon Hanson has spent his career analyzing the nitty-gritty of U.S. immigration policy. A professor at the University of California at San Diego, he’s examined Nafta’s impact on Mexican wages and whether the tax contributions of low-wage immigrant workers offset what the U.S. spends trying to keep them out, among many other subjects. Now he’s asking a question that’ll become critical if Congress passes immigration reform: How could businesses recruit and hire foreign workers more efficiently than they do under the current system?
His answer: Create a Monster.com for immigrants.