An excellent piece from BusinessWeek written by an Indian, incidentally, seems pertinent by detailing the lower standards of foreign vocational training and degrees. Can you imagine how bad relying on mass immigration to fill large labor shortages or replace Austrian workers entirely would be ?
"My research team at Duke looked in depth at the engineering education of China and India. We documented that these countries now graduate four to seven times as many engineers as does the U.S.The quality of these engineers, however, is so poor that most are not fit to work as engineers; their system of rote learning handicaps those who do get jobs, so it takes two to three years for them to achieve the same productivity as fresh American graduates.As a result, significant proportions of China's engineering graduates end up working on factory floors and Indian industry has to spend large sums of money retraining its employees."
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2011/tc20110112_006501.htm
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