Re:America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away
by bduerst on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @03:45PM
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The purpose of the H1B program is to fulfill skilled labor demand where local labor is unable to fill it.
The purpose is not to give visas to the wealthiest bidder in the wealthiest locations and industries.
Prevailing wage requirement already solves the problem of wage velocity, so this is just creating more issues without solving any.
Re:America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away
by int_19h on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:12PM
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"Unable to fill" is itself a function of the salary. If a local business is unable to fill it at what they're willing to pay, how about paying more to attract said labor from other parts of the country?
H1B and similar programs should be used to fill in the holes that are on the national level - i.e. where there's no labor force anywhere else in the country that could be enticed to move.
The remaining concern is distorted markets like foreign language teachers (brought up elsewhere in the thread), where it may be politically infeasible to raise compensation to match the value workers create.