Substitution between groups of highly-educated, foreign-born, H-1B workers
Highly-educated foreign-born workers can secure legal US employment through the H-1B program. The annual cap on H-1B issuances varies across individuals’ US educational experience, H-1B work history, and employer type. Caps are met quickly in most but not all years. This paper exploits these differe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier B.V.
2019
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| Online Access: | View Fulltext in Publisher |
| Summary: | Highly-educated foreign-born workers can secure legal US employment through the H-1B program. The annual cap on H-1B issuances varies across individuals’ US educational experience, H-1B work history, and employer type. Caps are met quickly in most but not all years. This paper exploits these differences to identify whether firms substitute across different sources of highly-educated, foreign-born, H-1B labor. New H-1B workers without advanced degrees from US universities substitute with new H-1B workers possessing advanced US degrees. Regressions find no evidence for substitution with established H-1B workers. © 2019 |
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| ISBN: | 09275371 (ISSN) |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.labeco.2019.101756 |