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Study: Losing the H-2B Visa Lottery Shrinks Firms, Doesn't Create US Jobs

AEA paper shows H-2B lottery losers shrink instead of hiring Americans

1 Sep 20 11:37 PM · 6d ago · 1 article · 1 post · 2 sources · development 1 of 3

A study published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, using the randomized H-2B visa lottery as a natural experiment across 472 surveyed firms, finds that losing the lottery cut a firm's foreign hiring roughly in half without increasing native low-skill employment; winning firms saw revenue and investment rise.

AEA paper shows H-2B lottery losers shrink instead of hiring Americans
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“If you don't allow firms to hire immigrant workers, they just become smaller firms. They are not replaced with US workers. Instead, the output of the firm shrinks, and there are fewer total w…”

Ethan G. Lewis

Michael A. Clemens Study co-author, economistEthan G. Lewis Study co-author, economistUS Department of Labor Agency administering the H-2B visa lottery

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