Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers

Re:Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers by briandear on Monday August 20, 2018 @08:37PM (#17805669)

However wage arbitrage is specifically against the intent and the letter of visa programs. It’s to fill actual shortages. If you can’t find a Python dev at $70k per year but you could find one at $100k per year, that isn’t a “shortage” — yet such “shortages” are what gets used to rationalize H1-B expansion.

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Re:Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers by rmrfrmrf on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:30PM (#17806394)

I'd like to add that part of the factor that's driving down wages is the fact that workers from countries with cheap/subsidized higher-level education can get a bachelor's degree for under $5000 (total), meaning that a student from a foreign country getting a master's degree from an American university graduates with around 1/3 the total debt that an American student would. That advantage makes it more feasible to take lower paying jobs in the first place, thus broadening the talent pool, which inherently drives wages down.

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Re:Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers by flyinglizard on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @02:05AM (#17807374)

That also means other countries subsidize the education of the US workforce, which from US perspective is not a bad thing.

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Re:Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers by conanbatt on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @11:09AM (#17810263)

By that definition there is never a shortage of any labor of any kind.

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