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Foreign IT professionals in U.S. get compensated a lot more than American professionals
Published 14 May well 2010
Foreign IT experts -- holders of H-1B visas -- working from the U.s. tend not to push down the spend of U.S.-born IT experts; the reason: foreign-born pros get paid a lot more, not significantly less,
Office 2010 Home And Student Key, than their American counterparts; the damage too-low caps on H1-B expert visas lead to American-born IT pros arrives in the fact that U.S. businesses choose to relocate offshore in which they could hire the foreigners they need with out spending the H-1B induced premium
Foreign IT pros operating from the Usa on H-1B visas tend not to trigger a reduction in pay for Americans,
Office Standard, as outlined by a new review — because they actually get compensated more than U.S. citizens with similar qualifications, not less.
According to a survey of “greater than 50,000 IT professionals from the United states of america,” analyzed by Sunil Mithas and Henry Lucas of the University of Maryland, H-1B workers “earn a salary premium” compared to Americans with similar “human capital attributes” — for example, qualifications and experience. The examine covered the period 2000-5.
Lewis Page writes that the two business professors say that the cap on numbers of H-1B visas causes “supply shocks” within the U.S. IT employment market, with lower,
Office 2007, fully utilized caps pushing up the premium paid by employers for foreign workers.
They argue for larger numbers of visas to be issued, saying that too-low caps motivate companies to relocate offshore where they're able to retain the foreigners they want devoid of paying the H-1B induced premium.
The two professors contend that perceived damage to Americans’ career and earnings prospects in the numbers of foreigners allowed so far cannot be real. They say that their research “provides indirect evidence that visa and immigration policies so far have not had any adverse impact on the wages of American IT pros due to any relatively lower compensation of foreign IT specialists.”
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-Read much more in Sunil Mithas and Henry C. Lucas Jr., “Are Foreign IT Workers Cheaper? U.S. Visa Policies and Compensation of Information Technology Specialists,” Management Science 56,
Windows 7 Home Premium Product Key, no. 5 (Might 2010): 745-65 (DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1100.1149) (sub. req.)