To: H-1B/L-1/offshoring e-newsletter

Mon May 20 18:28:56 PDT 2013


Nice collection of different viewpoints assembled by Dice.com's Dawn
Kawamoto, at

http://news.dice.com/2013/05/14/the-facts-behind-the-h-1b-debate/

To my knowledge, there has never been such a wide range of viewpoints
put in one place.  Thus it's a very valuable resource.

Prof. Bardhan's comments are the most interesting, from my point of 
view.  Much of what he says is a bit naive, such as regarding the 
prevailing wage.  He also presumes there is a shortage of STEM workers,
which no study has ever shown, and for which several studies have shown 
the opposite.  His point about offshoring is quite correct, though; I've
been making the same point for years, and pointing out that the industry
lobbyists' cry that "If you don't give us H-1Bs, we'll ship the work
abroad," is very misleading.

One minor point:  In my illustration of how beholden the universities 
are to the tech industry--Gates Hall, Hewlett Hall, etc.--I was 
referring to Stanford.  The viewer might mistakenly think I meant UCD.

Norm



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