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The Effect of the H-1B Quota on Employment and Selection of Foreign-Born Labor / Anna Maria Mayda, Francesc Ortega, Giovanni Peri, Kevin Shih, Chad Sparber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mayda, Anna Maria.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23902.
- NBER working paper series no. w23902
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.
- Summary:
- The H-1B program allows skilled foreign-born individuals to work in the United States. The annual quota on new H-1B visa issuances fell from 195,000 to 65,000 for employees of most firms in fiscal year 2004. However, this cap did not apply to new employees of colleges, universities, and non-profit research institutions. Additionally, existing H-1B holders seeking to renew their visa were also exempt from the quota. Using a triple difference approach, this paper demonstrates that cap restrictions significantly reduced the employment of new H-1B workers in for-profit firms relative to what would have occurred in an unconstrained environment. Employment of similar native workers in for profit firms did not change, however, consistently with a low degree of substitutability between H1B and native workers. The restriction also redistributed H-1Bs toward computer-related occupations, Indian-born workers, and firms using the H-1B program intensively.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2017.
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