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If We Need Immigrant PhDs, Why Are American PhDs Poor And Unemployed?
- "There they go again. Another report on the (allegedly) vital role of immigrants in the U.S. science and engineering workforceimplicitly bemoaning the competence of native-born Americans."
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The Science Education Myth
- BusinessWeek, October 26, 2007. "Forget the conventional wisdom. U.S. schools are turning out more capable science and engineering grads than the job market can support."
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The Ph.D. Glut Revisited
- by Gary North. "In the worldwide suckers' market, gamblers are the only people who are slower to learn than young adults with masters' degrees. Bright graduate students possess a pair of non-marketable skills: the ability to write term papers and the ability to take academic exams. They are also economic illiterates and incurably nave. So, they become the trusting victims of the professorial class." Reviewed in the NY Times, Feb 5, 2006.
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Do we need more scientists?
- by Michael S. Teitelbaum, The Public Interest, Fall 2003. "Despite the recent economic downturn, prominent scientific associations, business leaders, and academics continue to predict 'looming shortfalls' in America's science and engineering professions. Countering the prevailing view, Michael S. Teitelbaum reveals that few, if any, shortages exist in these fields and shows why proposed solutions to this illusory problem are profoundly misguided."
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What Scientist Shortage?
- Daniel S. Greenberg, Washington Post , May 19, 2004. " A scientist shortage? Again? The gloomy warnings are back. They're underpinned by declines in science studies by U.S. students and a post-Sept. 11 falloff in the enrollment of foreigners, who have traditionally filled as many as half the graduate slots in U.S. universities and have taken jobs here after graduation. A crisis is in the making, says a report by a pillar of the scientific establishment, the National Science Board, which warns that the 'trends threaten the economic welfare and security of our country.' "
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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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Why Americans Don't Study Science: It Doesn't Pay
- "There they go again. Claiming they cant find enough skilled Americans, the high-tech industry has browbeaten Congress into allowing them to bring in another 20,000 foreign workers. The little-noticed legislation, inserted into an appropriations bill required for the government to continue normal operations, expands the number of foreign workers eligible for H-1b visas from 65,000 to 85,000 in 2005."
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The U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce: An Unconventional Portrait
- Michael Teitelbaum's presentation at the 2002 GUIRR Pan-Organizational Summit. " To state the message succinctly: those who are concerned about whether the production of US scientists and engineers is sufficient for national needs must pay serious attention to whether careers in science and engineering are attractive relative to other career opportunities available to US students. "
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Into the Eye of the Storm: Assessing the Evidence on Science and Engineering Education,
Quality, and Workforce Demand
- "Recent policy reports claim the United States is falling behind other nations in science and math education and graduating insufficient numbers of scientists and engineers. Review of the evidence and analysis of actual graduation rates and workforce needs does not find support for these claims. U.S. student performance rankings are comparable to other leading nations and colleges graduate far more scientists and engineers than are hired each year. Instead, the evidence suggests targeted education improvements are needed for the lowest performers and demand-side factors may be insufficient to attract qualified college graduates."
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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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Tech doctorates decline 7 percent
- C|NET News.com, January 6, 2003. " The number of science and engineering doctorate degrees awarded in the United States dropped by 7 percent from 1998 to 2001, according to a survey released Monday by the National Science Foundation. However, enrollment in science and engineering graduate programs rose in 1999 and 2000--the latest years for which data is available. "
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Doctorate surplus in science, engineering is ongoing, researchers say
- " Universities in the United States are producing about 25 percent more doctorates in science and engineering fields than the U.S. economy can absorb, according to a new [1995] study by researchers at the Rand Corp. and Stanford`s Institute for Higher Education Research. "
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Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic Leadership? by Richard Freeman
- Richard Freeman, NBER Working Paper, 2005. "This paper develops four propositions that show that changes in the global job market for science and engineering (S & E) workers are eroding US dominance in S & E, which diminishes comparative advantage in high tech production and creates problems for American industry and workers"
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Another Study Raps Ph.D. Overproduction
- by Douglas Steinberg, The Scientist , October 2, 2000. NRC panel recommends a no-growth strategy
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Looking (In Vain) For the Geek Shortage
- "The sky is falling! The sky is falling! For years high-tech corporations have warned of a shortage of scientists and engineers. [See Why Americans Dont Study ScienceIt Doesnt Pay] The latest (alleged) evidence: the cap of 65,000 H-1b visas for fiscal 2006 was reached in August, 14 months prior to the fiscal year in which the visas would be used."
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Is There a Science Crisis? Maybe Not
- The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 9, 2004. " Leaders warn of a labor shortage in the U.S., but indicators point to an oversupply. "
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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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Framing the Engineering Outsourcing Debate: Placing the United States on a Level Playing
Field with China and India
- "The effect of the dynamics of engineering outsourcing on the global economy is a discussion of keen interest in both business and public circles. Varying, inconsistent reporting of problematic engineering graduation data has been used to fuel fears tha tAmerica is losing its technological edge. Typical articles have stated that in 2004 the United States graduated roughly 70,000 undergraduate engineers, while China graduated 600,000 and India 350,000. Our study has determined that these are inappropriate comparisons."
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Is there a Shortage of Scientists and Engineers? How Would We Know?
- RAND Issue Paper, William P. Butz, Gabrialle A. Bloom, Mihal E. Gross, Terrence K. Kelly, Aaron Kofner, Helga E. Rippen. " This paper's objectives are: * To clarify the concepts of 'shortage' and 'low-production' in the context of scientists and engineers. * To suggest answers to the questions in the paper's title. * To point toward strategies for addressing science and engineering workforce shortages. "
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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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U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the Sciences
- New York Times, May 3, 2004. " The United States has started to lose its worldwide dominance in critical areas of science and innovation, according to federal and private experts who point to strong evidence like prizes awarded to Americans and the number of papers in major professional journals. "
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Compete America - The Alliance for a Competitive Workforce
- A lobbying group that seeks to ease restrictions on H1-B visas for foreign nationals with a Masters or PhD. "In a number of key technical fields, the total number of graduates with advanced degrees has not kept pace with demand. In addition, a rising percentage of the advanced degrees awarded by U.S. universities in areas of study like engineering, mathematics and computer sciences are to foreign nationals. Under current immigration law, however, many of these graduates are not available for hire by U.S. firms without H-1B visas. They are, however, available to overseas competitors."
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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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The New Challenge to America's Prosperity: Findings from the Innovation Index
- A 1999 report from the Council on Competitiveness raises concerns about declining Ph.D. production in the sciences. An interesting read. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0)
