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How and Why Government, Universities, and Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages of Scientists and High-Tech Workers
- by Eric Weinstein, Project on the Economics of Advanced Training, Harvard University / National Bureau for Economic Research. Working Draft.
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Is There a Shortage of High-Tech Workers?
- "When it comes to providing graduate education for engineers and creating a competitive and growing high-tech sector, the United States is the envy of the world. Now we hear that the future of our high-tech industries depends upon the hiring of foreign engineers and scientists. Do we, in fact, have a shortage of engineers and scientists?"
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A Fresh Approach to Immigration
- by Alan Fechter (CPST) and Michael Teitelbaum (Sloan Foundation). Excerpt : " In the late 1980s, NSF's prediction of massive, looming shortfalls of scientists and engineers in the 1990s was one factor motivating large increases in employment-based ceilings for skilled workers-from 54,000 to 140,000 per year-embodied in the Immigration Act of 1990. When the forecasts of shortfalls proved dramatically wrong and the job market for doctoral scientists and engineers began to turn sour, concern shifted from future shortfall to current glut. ... [Efforts] to moderate the large increases adopted in 1990 were blocked during the 104th Congress. ... This outcome reflects the built-in inertia of public policy as well as the political and financial superiority of those advocating no change, from organized ethnic and religious groups to organizations representing research universities and certain employers such as Microsoft and Intel. "
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The Supply of Information Technology Workers in the United States
- A study from the Computing Research Association " to improve the understanding of the supply of and demand for information technology (IT) workers in the United States, and the surrounding contextual issues. " Contains many sensible recommendations.
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Now Hiring! If You're Young
- Norman Matloff, New York Times Op-Ed, January 26, 1998. " The real story here is more profound: the rampant age discrimination in the industry. High-tech companies save money by shunning most midcareer programmers and focusing their hiring on new or recent college graduates, who are cheaper and can work lots of overtime. "
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Colleges not training enough workers to fill jobs, say tech firms
- Aug 13, 1998, Seattle Times " Washington state's higher-education system is failing to produce enough people to program, design or run computer systems, according to educators and industry officials....What irritates local information-technology companies is that there is no lack of people who want to work in these businesses. There just aren't enough classes available to provide the skills that potential workers need. "
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Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage
- by Prof. Norman Matloff, UC Davis. " 'Vaporware.' That is the term used in the software industry when a firm announces a new product which actually does not exist. Extending the term a bit, one can say that the industry's latest vaporware is the claim of a desperate software labor shortage. The fact is that there is no such shortage. "
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Emerging Trends in the Information Technology Job Market: How Should the Public and Private Sectors Respond?
- Testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Committee on Education and the Workforce, United States House of Representatives, Dr. Robert I. Lerman, Director, Human Resources Policy Center, Urban Institute and Professor of Economics, American University, April 23, 1998.
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High Tech Migrant Labor
- by Alexander Nguyen, The American Prospect , 12/20/99 " Guest workers: They're not just picking vegetables anymore. A new class of 'migrant workers' is taking shape in America's Silicon Valley and other technology centers. These immigrants are not sneaking over U.S. bordersthey arrive by jet from India, the Philippines, China, and Taiwan to take jobs in computer programming, software design, and information services. "
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No shortage of computer scientists
- Norman Matloff, letter to the editor, San Jose Mercury News, August 17, 1997. " Industry officials have admitted a tendency to shun mid-career people in favor of hiring new graduates. Given this, what incentive is there for a young university student interested in long-term career prospects to major in engineering or computer science? "
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Tech's Major Decline
- College Students Turning Away From Bits and Bytes, by Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post, Tuesday, August 27, 2002, Page E01. " The tech industry's financial problems are enough to bankrupt the dreams of some fair-weather students. But now there's another consequence of the tech bust: Enrollment growth in undergraduate computer science departments has come to a halt. "
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American Engineering Association
- Link includes information on immigration, trade and a few other items with several related links listed.
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IEEE-USA Undertakes Its Own IT Head Count
- " IEEE-USA has long been suspicious of shortage forecasts. In the 1980s, the National Science Foundation projected a shortfall of some 200,000 engineers and scientists, but the methodology of that forecast was roundly criticized and later dismissed. Less than five years later, engineering endured its largest wave of layoffs in years as the defense industry and the commercial world downsized. "
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Hiring From Within
- Mother Jones , July/August, 1998. " High rates of legal immigration provide cheap, nonunion labor for big business, a steady stream of domestic servants for the overclass, and lower wages for American workers. So why do so many liberals support them? Michael Lind makes a provocative case for immigration reform. "
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Are tech workers in short supply?
- CNet News, September 28, 2000. " It is common for companies across America to complain about a shortage of information technology workers. The reality, however, is that there is no widespread lack of workers, but a shortfall in the ability of companies to recruit IT employees, to assess their talent and to make their jobs rewarding enough to keep them from quitting, claims a study by Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli. "
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The IT Labor Shortage: Fact or Fiction?
- By Richard Ellis, Dr. Dobbs Journal , April, 2000. " A hard look at the factors contributing to the so-called high-tech labor shortage "
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The Labor Market for Information Technology Workers
- Testimony before the Subcommittee on Immigration Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate, Dr. Robert I. Lerman, Director, Human Resources Policy enter, Urban Institute and Professor of Economics, American University, February 25, 1998.
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The Information Technology Association of America
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U.S. Department of Labor - Foreign Labor Certifications
- The U.S. Department of Labor has been given the task of implementing a system to permit immigration of workers to the U.S. while protecting U.S. worker's wages and working conditions. Refer to the link provided under the heading " Permanent Labor Certification " - Part 656, Subpart A to see a clear and concise description of the purpose and scope of Part 656. Use this material to understand the proposed legislation H.R. 3273 and S.798.
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Huddled Masses Yearning to Write Java
- By Karl Schoenberger, The Industry Standard , May 1, 2000. " With unusual bipartisan consensus, Congress and Clinton are expected this month to approve a bill that would ease limits on the immigration of high-tech workers. But many charge that the U.S. labor shortage is a fiction exploited by business to the detriment of American programmers. "
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S.798 - A bill to establish a Commission on the IT Technology Worker Shortage
- The text of a bill introduced by Senator Warner of Virginia on May 22, 1997. Additional details may be obtained by using " Thomas " with S.798 as a search term. Senator Warner's remarks on page s5015 are illuminating. There is no mention of existing IT professionals as stakeholders. (Requres Adobe Acrobat)
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America's New Deficit: the Shortage of Information Technology Workers
- The Department of Commerce report (requires Adobe Acrobat)
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Arthur Hu's Pro-Immigration Answer Page
- A lengthy rebuttal to Norm Matloff's arguments.
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National IT Worker Shortage Convocation Launches Quest for Systematic Solutions
- ITAA press release.
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Brain drain
- by Sarita Sarvate, Salon , January 10, 2000. " A bill that would give visas to high-tech foreign students will exploit the greatest minds of the third world for the sake of American industry. "
