Buying Lottery Tickets for Foreign Workers: Lost Quota Rents Induced by H-1B Policy
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Keywords
Skilled Workers; H-1B; Quota Rents; Outsourcing;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy
- F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2022-10-17 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-URE-2022-10-17 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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