Arbeitspapier
Substitution between Groups of Highly-Educated, Foreign-Born, H-1B Workers
Highly-educated foreign-born workers can secure legal US employment through the H-1B program. The annual cap on H-1B issuances varies across individuals' US educational experience, H-1B work history, and employer type. Caps are met quickly in most but not all years. This paper exploits these differences to identify whether firms substitute across different sources of highly-educated, foreign-born, H-1B labor. New H-1B workers without advanced degrees from US universities substitute with new H-1B workers possessing advanced US degrees. We find no evidence for substitution with established H-1B workers.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12028
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
International Migration
- Subject
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skilled workers
H-1B status
immigrant
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Sparber, Chad
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2018
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Sparber, Chad
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2018
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