... • Adding 100 H-1B workers results in an additional 183 jobs among US natives.
The 262 and 183 numbers are totally bogus. They are dependent upon selecting a time span that includes the tech crash of 2000-2002, a time span that included steep losses of both native and foreign workers. See http://econdataus.com/amerjobs.htm#section3. However, if the 2000-2007 time span of the study is moved forward two years to 2002-2009, a time span with general job gains (at least through 2008), the relationship reverses, showing a correlation between foreign job gain and native job LOSS. I would be interested to hear Zavodny address the fact that her exact same formulas show a reverse correlation for 2002-2009 (or 2002-2008). I suspect that she will never address that unless she is asked by someone who she cannot ignore.
People need to realize that, just because someone is a professor and/or has PHD after their name, it doesn't mean that every paper that they attach their name to is correct or has even been reviewed. The one that you reference is a "working paper". That's especially the case when they receive funding from a lobbying organization as I believe Zavodny did for this paper. Unfortunately, many otherwise intelligent people seem to think so. Check out the names on the "Parrot Page" of people who mindlessly parrot those numbers without doing anything to check to see if they have been verified. They include Senators Orrin Hatch, Jeff Flake, and Ted Cruz and the White House web site. For a longer analysis of the study, see this link and for an analysis of another bogus study, see this link
No question. She is using pure globull warming “hockey stick” logic to get these numbers. Thanks for the links. Maybe Cruz would change his position if he saw how the study was debunked. Some of those other guys are definitely in the tank for cheap labor and are just using these numbers as an excuse.