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This is a silly idea because only a small percentage of professions enjoy such high salaries, so the only thing you would do if you implement something like tha
by enraged_camel 7y ago
This is a silly idea because only a small percentage of professions enjoy such high salaries, so the only thing you would do if you implement something like that is end up with a disproportionate number of people with such jobs. Furthermore, companies in certain geographic areas (e.g. Silicon Valley) would rejoice, because they would be able to hire an even greater number of foreign workers before the quotas get filled.
There are much, much better ways to fix the issues with H-1B visas. The first and most important thing that needs to happen is no longer tying the visa to the employer. Once we make it so that people on H-1B can freely move around in the labor market during the course of their visa, they would automatically gain the ability to command higher wages, which would result in employers rely on foreign labor less (since it would be more expensive), and only hiring foreigners who are actually skilled and exceptional.
- duxup 7y agoI have no problem if only a few people really earn it now. It is supposed to be a program for highly skilled people.
- solveit 7y agoThe problem is that skill and salary don't correlate as much as it should. As bad as we are at taxing negative externalities, we're terrible at rewarding positive externalities.
- duxup 7y agoAs it is we are bringing in folks on H1Bs who appear to be borderline first level customer support (this was something I ran into browsing the online DB a while back). At least at 120k you know that the company involved really does value this employee to some extent. They're not likely to spend 120k on someone easily hired locally for far less.
- davidw 7y agoIf you don't bring them here, it's not like the jobs can't be moved there.
- duxup 7y agoThey can but clearly that isn't the case.
- davidw 7y agoYou've never spoken with someone in a call center who clearly wasn't in the US? Or dealt with coders or a team in a country other than the US? I've found both experiences to be pretty common.
- duxup 7y agoI'm very familiar with outsourcing. I'm not sure where you're going with it. The existence of outsourcing isn't something I thought we were confused about.
- davidw 7y agoIf you restrict people from coming to the US, it's likely to drive outsourcing, because computer work is very easy to ship around the world.
- mateo411 7y agoYou can apply for a H-1B transfer and the process usually takes about 3 weeks.