Michelle Malkin: The Myth of H-1B Job Creation

Creators Syndicate ^ | November 13, 2015 | Michelle Malkin

[jazusamo]

Every day brings new headlines, ignored by the Washington press corps, of U.S. workers losing their livelihoods to cheap H1-B visa replacements.

Just this week, Computerworld reported: "Fury and fear in Ohio as IT jobs go to India."

Yet, it remains an article of faith among Big Business flacks and Beltway hacks that H-1B not only protects American jobs, but also fuels miraculous job growth.

The myths are recycled and regurgitated by the likes of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who claims that "foreign-born STEM workers complement the American workforce, they don't take American jobs."

Bill Gates, citing the National Foundation for American Policy, which is run by one-man Beltway advocacy research shop operative Stuart Anderson, testified before Congress that "a recent study shows for every H-1B holder that technology companies hire, five additional jobs are created around that person."

Citing another NFAP study by economics professor Madeline Zavodny of Agnes Scott College, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asserted: "2.62 MORE JOBS are created for U.S.-born workers for each foreign-born worker in the U.S. with a U.S. STEM graduate degree."

But even the reliably pro-immigration expansionist Wall Street Journal had to call out Bill Gates on his misleading testimony to Congress regarding oft-cited NFAP job-creation figures. First off, the data set was confined to S&P 500 technology companies, which "excludes the leading users" of H-1B visas -- offshore outsourcing companies from India such as Infosys, Wipro and Tata.

Moreover, Carl Bialik, the newspaper's "Numbers Guy," reported that the study Gates cited to claim amazing H-1B job generation "shows nothing of the kind. Instead, it finds a positive correlation between these visas and job growth. These visas could be an indicator of broader hiring at the company, rather than the cause."

[jazusamo]

BUMP!

[ConservingFreedom]

H-1B ping. Let me know if you're not on the list and want to be added (or are and want to be removed).

[luvie]

I won't vote for anyone who is pro-amnesty. This is Cruz's plan and he's on the right page:

As Brian Phillips @RealBPhil [Rapid Response Director for Ted Cruz] says:

"Here's the Cruz amendment that *supposedly* creates a pathway to legalization. Geez, I don't see that anywhere:"

[jazusamo]

Thanks for posting the excerpt of Ted Cruz’s proposed Amendment denying citizenship to illegal aliens, LUV W.

[remember]

Please add me to the H-1B list. Anyhow, Malkin gives the source for the analysis that finds problems with Zavodny's data in footnote 66 of Chapter 3 in her new book "Sold Out" as http://econdataus.com/amjobs0.htm. At the bottom of that page are links to the R source code to reproduce these numbers. In addition, the 110 jobs lost for 2002-2008 can be seen in the second to the last table in Section 16 at http://econdataus.com/amjobs1.htm#section16 . This all shows the importance in not accepting numbers from any study that has not been replicated and verified. Zavodny's paper is merely a "working paper" that has never been peer-reviewed, much less replicated and verified. And yet there are references to scores of people, some with very big names, who have mindlessly parroted the 2.62 number at this link.

[ConservingFreedom]

Please add me to the H-1B list.

Added. Welcome aboard!

Malkin gives the source for the analysis that finds problems with Zavodny's data in footnote 66 of Chapter 3 in her new book "Sold Out" as http://econdataus.com/amjobs0.htm.

I wonder if she read about that on FR. :)

[AllAmericanGirl44]

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