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In a bad job market, a person with a mortgage and 4 people on their health insurance will work the same amount as someone who has 60 days to look for a differen

In a bad job market, a person with a mortgage and 4 people on their health insurance will work the same amount as someone who has 60 days to look for a different job. Paying COBRA for 18 months is wildly expensive and 2 years of job search is not an easy option as you’re making it out to be. It’s a hypothetical and most people won’t willingly put themselves in that situation. And FYI, you have 60 days to search for jobs but you can convert to B visas and continue your job search for another year. USCIS has clarified that, so H1Bs are also not that constrained as you’re making it out to be. https://x.com/USCIS/status/1638543885168263168 https://x.com/USCIS/status/1638543885168263168

sarchertech 1y ago
If you are on a visitor visa you can't work. An American worker has many many more options. They can take contract work while they job hunt. They can work anywhere they want not just the limited subset of companies will to sponsor them. They can get unemployment. If all else fails they can temporarily work in the service industry. A large percentage of American workers have a spouse who also works full time whose health insurance they can switch too. If a company fires an H-1B employee they can also withdraw their I-40, which means their spouse will lose their work authorization. >Paying COBRA for 18 months is wildly expensive It's $400-$700 a month on average for an individual. More expensive for people with families, but as I discussed above in the majority of families, both parents work. Someone here on a visitor visa also doesn't qualify for any ACA subsidies that an American scraping by on contract work while job searching would qualify for. At a population level, if you divide people into 2 groups. And you add significant extra consequences to being fired to group B, group B will work harder to avoid being fired all else being equal.

sarchertech 1y ago

If you are on a visitor visa you can't work. An American worker has many many more options. They can take contract work while they job hunt. They can work anywhere they want not just the limited subset of companies will to sponsor them. They can get unemployment. If all else fails they can temporarily work in the service industry. A large percentage of American workers have a spouse who also works full time whose health insurance they can switch too. If a company fires an H-1B employee they can also withdraw their I-40, which means their spouse will lose their work authorization. >Paying COBRA for 18 months is wildly expensive It's $400-$700 a month on average for an individual. More expensive for people with families, but as I discussed above in the majority of families, both parents work. Someone here on a visitor visa also doesn't qualify for any ACA subsidies that an American scraping by on contract work while job searching would qualify for. At a population level, if you divide people into 2 groups. And you add significant extra consequences to being fired to group B, group B will work harder to avoid being fired all else being equal.