全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Foreign and Native Skilled Workers: What Can We Learn from H-1B Lotteries?

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21175
来源ID	Working Paper 21175
	Foreign and Native Skilled Workers: What Can We Learn from H-1B Lotteries?
	Giovanni Peri; Kevin Shih; Chad Sparber
发表日期	2015-05-18
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	In April of 2007 and 2008, the U.S. randomly allocated 65,000 H-1B temporary work permits to foreign-born skilled workers. About 88,000 requests for computer-related H-1B permits were declined in each of those two years. This paper exploits random H-1B variation across U.S. cities to analyze how these supply shocks affected labor market outcomes for computer-related workers. We find that negative H-1B supply shocks are robustly associated with declines in foreign-born computer-related employment, while native-born computer employment either falls or remains constant. Most of the correlation between H-1B supply shocks and foreign employment is due to rationing that varies with a city's initial dependence upon H-1B workers. Variation in random, lottery-driven, unexpected shocks is too small to identify significant effects on foreign employment in the full sample of cities. However, we do find that random rationing affects foreign employment in cities that are highly dependent upon the H-1B program. Altogether, the results support the existence of complementarities between native and foreign-born H-1B computer workers.
主题	International Economics ; International Factor Mobility ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D ; Regional and Urban Economics ; Regional Economics
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21175
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578849
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Giovanni Peri,Kevin Shih,Chad Sparber. Foreign and Native Skilled Workers: What Can We Learn from H-1B Lotteries?. 2015.