Comment Re:Begone, luddites (Score 1) 391
Quoting your link:
The IEEE-USA sees the unemployment rate for engineers getting worse if the proposals to increase H-1B visas now making their way through Congress are successful. The organization has long opposed efforts to raise the H-1B cap.
Hey, finally something we can agree on. Here's another good one:
In one study, George J. Borjas, a professor of economics at Harvard, found that “by increasing the supply of labor between 1980 and 2000 immigration reduced the average annual earnings of native-born men by an estimated $1,700, or about 4 percent.”
“Among natives without a high school education, who roughly correspond to the poorest tenth of the work force,” Professor Borjas said, “the estimated impact was even larger, reducing their wages by 7.4 percent.”
(His data was calculated before the mid-2000s, when illegal immigrants began streaming across the border at a rate of >4,000 per day -- so surely the wage-depression effect is larger now. Since then, the media has become more politically correct, and no longer publicizes these kind of studies.)
Has nothing to do with robots, though.