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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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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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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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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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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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America's New Deficit: the Shortage of Information Technology Workers
- The Department of Commerce report (requires Adobe Acrobat)
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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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Clinton likely to veto immigration bill
- 7/30/98 " The Clinton administration is expected to veto high-tech immigration legislation if, as expected, Congress approves a compromise bill that waters down worker protection provisions favored by U.S. engineering groups. "
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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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'Cheep' Labor
- by Mike McGraw, Mother Jones Interactive : " Programs place Americans low in the pecking order "
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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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NPR's Science Friday discusses the IT Worker Shortage
- Ira Flatow, longtime host of NPR's award - winning " Science Friday " program examines employer claims of a " looming shortage " of Information Technology professionals during the first hour of the program on February 27, 1998. This program is available from the RealAudio archives. Copies of tapes and transcripts are available for a nominal fee from NPR. Geoff Davis, creator of www.Phds.org, is one of the panelists.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Study: Immigrants Boon for Tech
- by Joanna Glasner, Wired News , July 2, 1999. " New research showing that about a quarter of Silicon Valley technology companies are headed by immigrants may add oomph to the industry's efforts to raise the immigration cap for foreign technology workers. "
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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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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. "
