← Atlas Theme · spans 1 topics
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
Unauthorized Immigration and Local Labor Markets: Post-Pandemic Evidence and the Compositional Effect Squeezing the supply of foreign labor lowers long-term growth capacity rather than simply shifting opportunities to native workers.
Immigration and Wages
High-Skilled Immigration: Firm-Level Complementarity, the Wage-Weighted Lottery, and the September 2025 H-1B Visa Tax Debate It provides the converse proof that having high-skilled foreign labor active domestically directly keeps technical operations from being offshored.