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Coping with H-1B Shortages: Firm Performance and Mitigation Strategies / Anna Maria Mayda, Francesc Ortega, Giovanni Peri, Kevin Y. Shih, Chad Sparber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mayda, Anna Maria.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w27730.
- NBER working paper series no. w27730
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- The United States' H-1B visa program, which allows private firms to hire highly skilled foreign workers, was so severely over-subscribed in the years since 2014 that H-1B status was distributed by lotteries to a subset of applicants. Using data on H-1B applications and on a range of outcomes for publicly traded companies, we find that employers using the H-1B program experienced reduced employment, sales and profits, compared to non-users in the years since 2014. We also find that some employers anticipated the rationing of H-1Bs and retained a larger share of H-1B workers, mitigating the damaging effects of H-1B rationing on their performance.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2020.
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