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Restricting foreign labor fails to protect domestic workers as firms simply offshore or contract capacity.
Imposed barriers on foreign talent do not force domestic hiring; instead, they compel companies to relocate high-skilled operations abroad or scale back their growth ambitions.
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Immigration and Wages
High-Skilled Immigration: Firm-Level Complementarity, Offshoring, and H-1B Program Changes It illustrates that restricting high-skilled foreign talent does not spur domestic employment, but instead induces firms to relocate engineering operations abroad.
Immigration and Wages
Unauthorized Immigration and Local Labor and Housing Markets: Post-Pandemic Evidence Squeezing the supply of foreign labor lowers long-term growth capacity rather than simply shifting opportunities to native workers.