Quest for Talents: Attraction and Retention of  Highly Skilled Overseas Chinese in the United States and Canada^*

Tony Fang is the Stephen Jarislowsky Chair in Economic and Cultural Transformation, and a Professor in the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Adjunct Professor in Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the University of Toronto, an Adjunct Professor in Sociology with the Toronto Metropolitan University, and a J. Robert Beyster Fellow at Rutgers University, a Research Fellow at IZA, and a Past President of the Chinese Economist Society. Lilac Ge is an undergraduate student in the School of Management and Economics Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) and an incoming graduate student in Economics at the University of Hong Kong. John Hartley is a Research Fellow at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Hui Ming is an Associate Professor in the College of Economics at Sichuan Agricultural University. Financial support from the Stephen Jarislowsky Foundation, the National Social Science Foundation of China research grant, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada is gratefully acknowledged. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.