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Losing The Best And The Brightest: The Disappearing Wage Premium For H-1b Visa Recipients, Danielle M. Drago
Losing The Best And The Brightest: The Disappearing Wage Premium For H-1b Visa Recipients, Danielle M. Drago
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
The pressure for immigration reform in the technology industry revolves heavily around the use of the H-1B visa, which allows companies to temporarily hire highly skilled workers. This Note provides an empirical analysis of the historical wages of H-1B workers and domestic workers in the technology industry to determine whether H-1B workers earn more or less than domestic workers in the same industry. In the technology industry, H-1B workers' wage premium has eroded in recent years relative to domestic workers, leading to stagnant wages that may deter the "best and the brightest" from choosing to enter into the H-1B process. …