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Re:Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program by fiatmoney on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @02:58PM (#10541998)
It's not really necessary to segment by sector; you can simply have one pool of visas. The efficiency implications actually work better that way - a "shortage" of workers in a non-productive economic sector isn't really a shortage.

If you think an industry has non-economic benefits or positive externalities the correct response is to help them capture that directly, not futz with the labor market to give them an implicit subsidy.

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Re:Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program by etherealmachine on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @07:51PM (#10543948)
I'm thinking not of industry, but of academia and research. It's not going to work to just give blanket subsidies (like say, 20k to all Postdoc researchers) - you need a system that allows in foreign researchers, and my point is it's hard to differentiate academic research from industry research. Also, everything discussed is "futzing" with the labor market - it's not like setting up a government run auction is some sort of pure free market.
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