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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"h 1b"”.
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Recycled Modernity: Google, Immigration History, and the Limits for H-1B
… and Nationality Act exception referred to as "H-1B" for the section of the law where it appears. H-1B authorized temporary admission for highly skilled labor in specialty occupations. Congressional testimony by Laszlo Bock, Google Vice President for People Operations, provided the most succinct …
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Essays in international migration
… 1995-2007, using novel microdata on approved H-1B visas. These data show that most H-1B employers specialize in the production of high-skilled services used as inputs by other businesses. In light of this, I consider the downstream effects of skilled immigrants on industry labor market outcomes: …
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Inequality in the work visa approvals of U.S. immigrants
… encompasses the entire population of 1,441,856 H-1B temporary work visa requests evaluated by government agents from May 2005 to April 2010, I assess whether agents' visa approval and denial decisions are shaped by immigrants' sending country characteristics. Through this program, government …
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Immigration, inequality, and the state : three essays on the employment of foreign nationals in the United States
… the entire population of approved and denied H- 1B temporary work visas over a five year period. I find that immigrant workers from sending countries with lower levels of economic development are less likely to receive approvals for initial and continuing employment requests, all else equal. In …
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The investigation of the optical properties of polytypic minerals
… 0.094) to the proportion of Hg cations in the H(1B) site, Hg/(Hg + Fe + Hn) - HGN. Correlations between the optical orientation angles and HGN were weaker (R² ≤ 0.87). The optical orientation is very sensitive to small variations in the polytypic composition, especially orientation angles that …
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Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… work and live in the US on work visas such as H-1B, and compares them to natives. In this chapter I examine whether or not there exists any wage premium for or against college graduate immigrants who are on work visa compared to college graduate natives. I also check for any change of such a …
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Migration and health: A study of Asian Indian high-skilled migrants in central Illinois
The goal of this study was to estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity among Asian Indian high skilled migrants in central Illinois and quantify the magnitude of association between the prevalence of overweight and obesity and duration of residence in the United States (US). Body mass …