from EPI (thanks to Mary R.) - click the links to EPI's site:
The immigration debate is complicated and polarizing, but the implications of the data for enacting high-skill guestworker policy are clear: Immigration policies that facilitate large flows of guestworkers will supply labor at wages that are too low to induce significant increases in supply from the domestic workforce. In the new EPI report Guestworkers in the high-skill U.S. labor market, Hal Salzman of Rutgers University, Daniel Kuehn of American University, and B. Lindsay Lowell of Georgetown University find little evidence to support expansion of high-skill guestworker programs as proposed in the immigration bill being debated in the Senate. Contrary to many industry claims, the study finds that U.S. colleges and universities provide an ample supply of highly qualified science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) graduates.
Despite the large number of highly qualified STEM graduates from U.S. colleges and universities, this week’s Economic Snapshot shows that the comprehensive immigration bill introduced by the Senate “Gang of Eight” could give nearly half of new IT jobs requiring a college degree to guestworkers.
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