Senior fellow Michael Clemens's immigration brief referenced in Foreign Policy blog on immigration.
From the article:
A new paper by Michael Clemens of the Center for Global Development looks at just how much it's worth for an Indian computer programmer to come to the United States. Clemens analyzed the personnel records of an unnamed Indian-based IT firm,whose employees participated in the H-1B vista lottery in 2007 and 2008. The firm has employees working at both its Indian office and onsite with foreign clients, so the winners of the lotteries were sent to the United States while the losers did offsite work.
Clemens found that "for 2008 lottery entrants observed in 2007, the effect of working outside India is about 55,000 dollars per year in exchange-rate dollars. For 2007 lottery entrants observed in 2009, the effect is about 58,000 dollars per year."
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