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Doesn't that guarantee that foreigners will continue to be paid more than locals?
by jzwinck 6y ago
Doesn't that guarantee that foreigners will continue to be paid more than locals?
- chindtooo 6y agoThat is the whole point. No one is going to pay foreigners 2x if the local is available at 1x. Markets work better than any paperwork.
- setr 6y agoIs that a problem? Isn’t the usual complaint that foreigners are happy to accept less pay, and h1bs are used to fuel that? You want foreigners to cost more, to incentivize usage of the local population first — and the whole point of the h1b was supposed to be to “improve the average”, by only hiring for those skills/expertise that can be met by local population.
- orange_tee 6y agoIt could cause other problems for other people, like gentrification of entire cities.
- konjin 6y agoThis is literally an episode of south park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_the_Neighborhood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_the_Neighborhood
- smdz 6y agoWhy would a business pay 2x to someone when they can get the same output from a local at 1x pay? Unless they(business) are doing some financial trickery
- Muromec 6y ago>Why would a business pay 2x to someone when they can get the same output from a local at 1x pay? In the Netherlands it's 2x of median salary across all job market, not 2x of the same position that could be filled by local. The idea of this policy is to prevent foreigners (which EU citizens are not) from outbidding locals and lowering the living standard in the country. So if knowledge workers are a scarce resource which you can't find at home, you are naturally paying more.
- loopz 6y agoExploitation, easier disposal, less accountability, more access to higher qualifications, etc.
- sverhagen 6y agoBecause they can't get the work done by locals? Isn't that half if not the entire point of bringing people in through H1-B visas?
- carlsborg 6y agoThe ones that don't make the bar at the renewal time go home, and many did.