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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. …
The Ironies Of Automation Law: Tying Policy Knots With Fair Automation Practices Principles, Meg L. Jones
The Ironies Of Automation Law: Tying Policy Knots With Fair Automation Practices Principles, Meg L. Jones
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Rapid developments in sensors, computing, and robotics, including power, kinetics, control, telecommunication, and artificial intelligence have presented opportunities to further integrate sophisticated automation across society. With these opportunities come questions about the ability of current laws and policies to protect important social values new technologies may threaten. As sophisticated automation moves beyond the cages of factories and cockpits, the need for a legal approach suitable to guide an increasingly automated future becomes more pressing. This Article analyzes examples of legal approaches to automation thus far by legislative, administrative, judicial, state, and international bodies. The case studies reveal an interesting irony: …
Invisible Labor, Invisible Play: Online Gold Farming And The Boundary Between Jobs And Games, Julian Dibbell
Invisible Labor, Invisible Play: Online Gold Farming And The Boundary Between Jobs And Games, Julian Dibbell
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
When does work become play and play become work? Court shave considered the question in a variety of economic contexts, from student athletes seeking recognition as employees to professional blackjack players seeking to be treated by casinos just like casual players. Here, this question is applied to a relatively novel context: that of online gold farming, a gray-market industry in which wage-earning workers, largely based in China, are paid to play fantasy massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) that reward them with virtual items that their employers sell for profit to the same games' casual players. Gold farming is clearly a …