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Evidence That H-1B Holders Don't Replace US Workers
Okian Warrior writes: In response to Donald Trump's allegations that H1B visas drive Americans out of jobs, The Huffington Post points to this study which refutes that claim. From the study: "But the data show that over the last decade, as businesses have requested more H-1Bs, they also expanded jobs for Americans." This seems to fly in the face of reason, consensus opinion, and numerous anecdotal reports. Is this report accurate? Have we been concerned over nothing these past few years? Remember, this is about aggregates, rather than whether some specific job has been replaced.
I have a bunch of H-1B workers (All Indian) at my place of employment, so yeah, they DO replace American workers.
This just means there's more demand for skilled workers than h1b's and native talent pool combined.
It means there's more demand for CHEAPER skilled workers than the native talent pool has.
I've heard stories from a technical director at a major American firm where they'd reject PHDs simply because they were worried they'd leave for higher paying jobs elsewhere. Their opinion was "why employ someone who wants more in terms of benefits, vacation, pay, etc when we can bring in someone who is completely under our control, easily replaceable/dismissable as needed, and cheaper". Control is the real crux of it - these workers are completely at the whim of the company because once the company is done with them they can't seek another job they must return home. That lets them abuse the crap out of them and if they complain they get sent home and someone else is brought in to take their place.
The Huffington Post is a solid far-left news source, it hardly has anything in common with eh far-right Koch brothers.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Yeah, but HuffPo is just reporting on the study. They should know better than to take the Cato institute seriously, but apparently they don't.
these workers are completely at the whim of the company because once the company is done with them they can't seek another job they must return home. That lets them abuse the crap out of them and if they complain they get sent home and someone else is brought in to take their place.
That is incorrect. If the management thinks that they probably have not researched it properly. Once here on their H1-b can moe to any company willing to take over the H1-B.
When you cant win, ad hominem.
You mean...Disney didn't replace their US tech employees with H-1B Visa holders? So their US employees did not train their H-1B Visa replacements?
You mean...Microsoft didn't lay off 18,000 people and then lobby Congress to increase the number of H-1B Visas?
You mean...there isn't economic research that refutes that article's premise: "As longtime researchers of the STEM workforce and immigration who have separately done in-depth analyses on these issues, and having no self-interest in the outcomes of the legislative debate, we feel compelled to report that none of us has been able to find any credible evidence to support the IT industry’s assertions of labor shortages." http://www.epi.org/publication...
Sounds like a page out of the Philip Morris playbook: "cigarettes don't cause cancer" - "H-1B Visa holders don't displace American workers"
you realize there is only about 167m Americans of working age right? You mean that the unemployment rate is at 60%? Out of 318m people, 47.4% are not of the working age. http://quickfacts.census.gov/q...
When you cant win, ad hominem.
How many days do they have once fired from a company to get someone to take it over?
30. In theory. In practice, nobody is really monitoring that closely. We have 10 million illegal Mexicans, so a handful of Indians bending the rules isn't a big concern.