Keyword: immigrants
Moving Up by Staying Put (8/30/2001)
American companies are increasingly outsourcing back-office and software design work to highly skilled but lower-cost English-speaking foreign workers.
Keywords: back office, foreign workers, globalization, H1-B visa, high- tech industry, immigrants, jobs, labor mobility, migration, outsourcing, salary, skilled workers, wage
The Seduction of Cheap Labor (8/31/2005)
Cheap immigrant labor has kept labor-intensive lettuce farming in America that should perhaps have been offshored or mechanized.
Keywords: cheap labor, immigrant workers, immigrants, labor market, lettuce, offshoring, opportunity costs, wage