Study: High-Skilled Immigrants Are Neither Better Nor Brighter Than U.S. Workers (Congress, minimum wage)

[All American NYC]

The immigrant workers, especially those who first came to the United States as foreign students, are in general of no higher talent than the Americans, as measured by salary, patent filings, dissertation awards, and quality of academic program...there is no statistical difference in economic output between foreign and native workers, the idea of a shortage of high-skilled workers is a myth.

Its nothing more to push the American worker aside.

[Spaten_Drinker]

Originally Posted by All American NYC

Its nothing more to push the American worker aside.

The "shortage" is in the number of American workers who will work for minimum wage and not complain about it.

[Finn_Jarber]

Study: High-Skilled Immigrants Are Neither Better Nor Brighter Than U.S. Workers

I never heard anyone claim that they are better & brighter. We just don't have enough people with their skill sets.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by Spaten_Drinker

The "shortage" is in the number of American workers who will work for minimum wage and not complain about it.

The "shortage" is also at the high end as well or so corporate CEO's tell us and Congress.
There is a bill to double the number of H1-B visas to 130K per year and an annual percentage increase based on demand.

Corporate CEO's say there is a shortage of skilled American college graduates and they need people from India/China to come here and do the work.

[uggabugga]

..but are they cheaper?

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

..but are they cheaper?

They can be if their job titles are entry level.
It's how they are classified by the companies.

Companies have to pay prevailing wage but it could be entry level prevailing wage.

Here's an article by Cringely. He's been writing about this and offshoring in high tech for years and is read and followed by many techies.

http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/23/w...d-hurt-us-all/

[EdwardA]

I know at business school a lot of the foreigners especially from Asia were caught cheating. While I cherished my foreign teammates I tended to get more from my American teammates who were more well rounded. What use is it being an Excel guru if you can't explain what is on the sheet?

[EdwardA]

Originally Posted by Spaten_Drinker

The "shortage" is in the number of American workers who will work for minimum wage and not complain about it.

Exactly there is no shortage, in a market economy employers would merely raise the salaries for the jobs they need to fill if they are having trouble filling it. Employers today simply don't want to do that and would rather pay a select group of execs outsized pay packages.

[OICU812]

Originally Posted by All American NYC

Its nothing more to push the American worker aside.

People are people, the grass is not greener on the other hill, and the people aren't smarter or dumber either.

[All American NYC]

Originally Posted by Spaten_Drinker

The "shortage" is in the number of American workers who will work for minimum wage and not complain about it.

What American worker will not work for minimum wage?

What high skilled job pays minimum wage?