Did U.S. Immigration Policy Influence India’s IT Boom?

Gaurav Khanna and Nicolas Morales

Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2023, vol. 23, issue 42

Abstract: We highlight an unintended consequence of U.S. immigration policy for high-skill workers. Indian college students and workers got skills in computer science in the 1990s — a key occupation for innovation and growth — with the prospects of migrating to work in the booming U.S. IT industry. However, many ended up not migrating or returning to India after a short period. These workers helped build the IT sector in India, which grew at outstanding rates in the late 2000s.

Keywords: immigration policy; India; IT sector; migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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