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Immigration and the Tech Industry: As a Labor Shortage Remedy, for Innovation or for Cost Savings?
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Immigration and the Tech Industry: As a Labor Shortage Remedy, for Innovation, or for Cost Savings?
The two main reasons cited by the U.S. tech industry for hiring foreign workersremedying labor shortages and hiring "the best and the brightest"are not supported by the data, even after excluding the Indian IT service firms. Instead, the primary goals of employers in hiring the foreign workers are to reduce labor costs and to obtain "indentured" employees. Current immigration policy is caus...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3545776