Is Immigration Bad For The Economy? H-1B Visas Lower Tech Sector Wages, Study Finds
March 14, 2017
The H-1B visa program, often used to compensate for shortages of skilled workers in the tech industry, may bring down the wages of engineers, mathematicians and other specialty employees in the U.S., a study found.
The paper, by researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of California, San Diego, found computer scientists’ incomes would have been as much as 5 percent higher and employment for computer science workers would have increased as much as 11 percent in the absence of the program.