Coping with H-1B Shortages: Firm Performance and Mitigation Strategies

Anna Maria Mayda, Francesc Ortega, Giovanni Peri, Kevin Shih and Chad Sparber

ILR Review, 2023, vol. 76, issue 5, 919-943

Abstract: The H-1B visa program allows companies to hire skilled foreign workers. Before 2014, the vast majority of these visas were allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Since then, the program has been severely oversubscribed and all cap-subject visas have been allocated through lotteries. The authors merged Compustat data with administrative firm-level data on the universe of approved petitions for H-1B visas. Using difference-in-differences and matching estimators, this article finds that the switch in the visa allocation system negatively affected the growth of companies that used the H-1B program. Results indicate that these effects are quantitatively large and that their magnitudes grow over time.

Keywords: H-1B visa; skilled labor; migration; firms; rationing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/00197939231165770

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