H‑1B Visas Depress US Wages

The article argues that accepted H‑1B wage‑gap estimates are large and robust to recent critiques, implying the visa program exerts downward pressure on native tech wages. The author (George J. Borjas) challenges methodological counters and defends the use of administrative datasets to measure the effect. — If the H‑1B program meaningfully reduces wages for U.S. tech workers, it changes the cost‑benefit calculation of skilled‑immigration policy and informs debates over wage floors, labor protections, and visa caps.