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Re:Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program by _delirium on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @12:06PM (#10540554)
Isn't concentrating them towards high-salary fields exactly what should happen? The stated point of H-1Bs is to solve skill shortages, and fields with relatively low wages presumably have no skill shortage, or the supply/demand imbalance would have driven the prevailing wages up.
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Re:Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program by sokoloff on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @01:37PM (#10541315)
Though I love the market system in general, it's pretty clear to me that neither salary and skills nor salary and societal good are anywhere near linear (or even monotonic for that matter) across fields.

School teachers, nurses, and regional pilots are three fields I can think of where we may well have skill shortages despite fairly low wages. (in the third case, I think it's because of low wages, but no matter...)

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Re:Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program by jacalata on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:10PM (#10542092)
Skill shortages 'despite' low wages doesn't make sense. "Even though we don't pay them much, people aren't flocking to do it!"
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Re:Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program by sokoloff on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @05:27PM (#10543082)
That's fair and I agree. I should have said "and" rather than "despite".
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Re:Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program by UK-AL on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @06:22PM (#10543416)
That's because people won't pay. Those professions should be paid more, but there not because of the whim of some administrators deciding what the wage should be.

Exactly what were trying to avoid here.

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