Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/193322 
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Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12028
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Highly-educated foreign-born workers can secure legal US employment through the H-1B program. The annual cap on H-1B issuances varies across individuals' US educational experience, H-1B work history, and employer type. Caps are met quickly in most but not all years. This paper exploits these differences to identify whether firms substitute across different sources of highly-educated, foreign-born, H-1B labor. New H-1B workers without advanced degrees from US universities substitute with new H-1B workers possessing advanced US degrees. We find no evidence for substitution with established H-1B workers.
Subjects: 
skilled workers
H-1B status
immigrant
JEL: 
J61
F22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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