Thanks for those links. They will be very useful.
As for H-1B "skilled workers"...that is a misnomer. The better term would be "credentialed workers." Credentials do NOT equal skill or suitability to a task. I've been involved in IT hiring for a decade. All H-1B workers without exception have impressive credentials, but most of them have next to no actual experience, and some are flatly unable to do the very tasks they are credentialed for. But they work for a fraction of the wage expected by skilled US workers, and-most insidiously-one rejects them at peril of being labelled a racist. There are a lot of hiring games being played, and quality suffers for it.
jboot, my pleasure.
Here's another quoting Greenspan in 2007 on manipulating the supply of 'skilled workers' to suppress wages:
"Inequality of incomes is the "critical area where capitalist systems are most vulnerable," Greenspan said yesterday in Washington at a conference on maintaining the competitiveness of US capital markets convened by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. "You cannot have a system that we have unless the people who participate in it believe it is just."
"Allowing more skilled workers into the country would bring down the salaries of top earners in the United States, easing tensions over the mounting wage gap,
Greenspan said."