The Bottom of the Pay Scale: Wages for H-1B Computer Programmers FY
2004, www.cis.org Dec. 2005
Report Text
Appendices
Wages of H-1B Computer Workers in N.J. Compared to All Workers for 2001
Lowest Paying Employers of H-1B Computer Workers for 2004
Review of Vulnerabilities and Potential Abuses of the L-1 Visa Program, January 2006
On security threats posed by the H-1B program.
This is one of the two reports in existence that suggest H-1B workers do not get paid as much as Americans. That aspect of the report is fundamentally flawed because it maps INS/BCIS jobs codes to CPS job codes in a manner that simply is not correct. It treats BCIS job code 030, which contains all jobs that are computer-related, from jr. programmer to vice president, to the CPS job codes for programmers and systems analysts.
See the CPS information below.
United States General Accounting Office
Information Technology: Assessment of the Department of Commerce's Report on Workforce Demand and Supply, March 1998
The GAO's analysis of "Assessment of the Department of Commerce’s Report on Workforce Demand and Supply" (see below).
Immigration Policy for Intracompany Transfers (L Visa): Issues and Legislation, Jan. 26, 2006
"Financing Innovation Forum" announcement, June 19, 2003
The Department of Commerce's now-discredited report based upon the ITAA's data.
Update: America's New Deficit, January 1998
An update to the same report.
Update: America's New Deficit, August 2000
An update to the same report.
Another version of the same report here. The only difference I am aware is it lacks one appendix.
A 1996 audit by the Department of Labor
Proclaims the H-1B training program is ineffective.
These two documents do not directly relate to H-1B. However, they contain the basic information that shows the flaws in the GAO's report below.
A 1999 report from the Department of Commerce
The Department of Commerce produced the only report (Not the one listed above) that has found a programmer shortage that has not been funded by the H-1B lobbyists themselves (although it did use data from those lobbyists). This is the GAO's scathing analysis of that report. The DoC has since retracted the report.
This report purposes to show that H-1B causes unemployment among Americans but does not depress wages. The reality is this report is so fundamentally flawed scientifically that it that is shows nothing.
Report on H-1B Petitions Annual Report Fiscal Year 2000
Fact Sheet: H-1B Petitions Received and Approved in FY 2003, October 22, 2003
Leading Employers of Specialty Occupation Workers (H-1B): October 1999 to February 2000, June 2000
Excerpts from the INS's "Statistical Yearbook of the Immigration and Naturalization Service."
The Global Battle for Talent and People, September 2003
A Stuart Anderson Propaganda Piece.
An Analysis of Unemployment Trends Among IEEE U.S. Members, September-October 1998
Is There A Shortage of Information Technology Workers? Dr. Peter Cappelli, Wharton School of Business
On the need for Reform of the H-1B Non-immigrant Work visa in Computer-Related Occupations, Dr. Norman Matloff, University of Michigan Law School Journal of Law Reform, Summer 2003
A Missed Opportunity, Dr. Norman Matloff, Center for Immigration Studies, March 2003