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Title: Understanding the Economic Impact of the H-1B Program on the United States

Citation Type: Book, Section

Publication Year: 2018

ISBN: 9780226525662

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Abstract: An increasingly high proportion of the scientists and engineers in the United States were born abroad. At a very general level, the issues that come up in the discussion of high skilled immigration mirror the discussion of low-skilled immigration. The most basic economic arguments suggest that both high-skilled and low-skilled immigrants (a) impart benefits to employers, to owners of other inputs used in production such as capital, and to consumers; and (b) potentially, impose some costs on workers who are close substitutes (Borjas 1999). Evidence suggests, however, that the magnitude of these costs may be substantially mitigated if US high-skilled workers have good alternatives to working in sectors most affected by immigrants . . .

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Authors: Bound, John; Khanna, Gaurav; Morales, Nicolas

Editors: Hanson, Gordon, H; Kerr, William, R; Turner, Sarah

Pages: 109-176

Volume Title: High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Publisher Location: Chicago, Illinois, US

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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