Coping with H-1B Shortages
Firm Performance and Mitigation Strategies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3534733 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Maria Mayda (0000-0003-0094-2586, Queens College, CUNY), Francesc Ortega (0000-0001-5779-5711, Queens College, CUNY), Giovanni Peri (0000-0002-4979-8426, Queens College, CUNY), Kristy Shih (0000-0003-3604-629X, Queens College, CUNY, corresponding author), Chad Sparber (0000-0001-9974-8809, Queens College, CUNY) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 919-943 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00197939231165770 |
| OpenAlex | W4362640830 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
The H-1B visa program allows companies to hire skilled foreign workers. Before 2014, the vast majority of these visas were allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Since then, the program has been severely oversubscribed and all cap-subject visas have been allocated through lotteries. The authors merged Compustat data with administrative firm-level data on the universe of approved petitions for H-1B visas. Using difference-in-differences and matching estimators, this article finds that the switch in the visa allocation system negatively affected the growth of companies that used the H-1B program. Results indicate that these effects are quantitatively large and that their magnitudes grow over time
Business · Coping (psychology) · Economic shortage · Economics · Matching (statistics) · Operations management · Statistics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Mathematics · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |