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That's really useful data. As always with statistics, I've thought about what factors could influence the data. One is population, so the obvious thing would be
by guitarbill 10y ago
That's really useful data. As always with statistics, I've thought about what factors could influence the data. One is population, so the obvious thing would be to weight the number of visas issued (which should be proportional to the number of visas applied for if it's a lottery) with the population of that country, specifically the number of people with bachelor degrees or higher.
But even with weights controlling for educated population, from rough calculations I've done, H1-B visas seem to be issued disproportionally often to Indian nationals.
If it were somehow possible to see the average H1-B wage per nationality, that would also be very interesting.
But neither would answer why that's the case, a simple (and probably wrong explanation) could be that Europeans are simply less likely to wait for H1-B visas given the benefits inherently provided in those countries. (Edit: What I mean is you still can't tell if this disproportionality is a good or bad thing, only that there is such a disproportionality.)
- rodionos 10y agoThat's a good point, obviously India and China have vastly larger populations and hence produce more STEM graduates than the other countries. If population and the number of graduates were the key factor, we would observe a similar trend across other visa types, in particular academic visas. This is not the case, it seems: https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/6042ea50/2/ https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/6042ea50/2/ - J-1 https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/6042ea50/3/ https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/6042ea50/3/ - F-1 J-1 is particularly interesting, where India is growing but lagging behind other countries.