Mithas, Sunil; Henry C. Lucas, Jr. - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 5, pp. 745-765
The use of H-1B and other work visas to hire foreign information technology (IT) professionals in the United States has … attracted significant controversy and policy debates. On one hand, hiring high-skill foreign IT professionals on work visas can … the wages of foreign and American IT professionals. This study uses data on skills and compensation of more than 50,000 IT …