The Economic Scope and Future of US-India Labor Migration Issues

Jacob Kirkegaard

No WP15-1, Working Paper Series from Peterson Institute for International Economics

Abstract: This paper empirically investigates US-India labor migration and finds that it dominates permanent and temporary employment-based migration to the United States. The true economic value of temporary high-skilled Indian workers in the United States, based on a new visa data based methodology, is estimated to exceed $45 billion in recent years, surpassing the value of US cross-border imports of goods or services from India. The paper analyzes the impact of a potential US immigration reform on US-India bilateral labor migration relations and finds the 2013 Senate Bill S-744 to ease access for Indian individuals to the US labor market, while making it harder for some Indian high-tech firms to operate in the US markets.

Keywords: Temporary Labor Migration; High-Skilled Workers; US-India Relations; Immigration Reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 F24 F66 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-05
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