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Title: The H-1B Program: Comparing Effects Across Industries

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: This thesis uses ordinary least squares (OLS) as well as instrumental variable (IV) regressions to test whether the number of H-1B visa applicants has an effect on the wages or employment level of high-skill native workers. The paper examines (1) the effects of IT immigrants on laborers in fields that are complements to IT, (2) the role that native migration may play in obscuring results in regional immigration studies such as this one, (3) whether the effects of high-skilled immigrants in the architecture/engineering/surveying field and the education field differ significantly from the effects of high-skilled immigrants in the IT field. The paper concludes that the effects on laborers in jobs that should be complements to IT jobs are not significant, that the role of native migration is unclear, and that the architecture/engineering/surveying effects do significantly differ from the effects in IT. With regard to how IPUMS was used in this study: In-state and out-of-state migration data was used as part of this study to determine the effects of H-1B immigrants on native worker income and employment. The migration data was used to test whether native migration was blurring the results of the overall immigration study.

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Authors: Phair, Desiree

Institution: California State University-Fullerton

Department: Economics

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Degree: Master of Arts

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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