Professor Chad Sparber and his co-authors Giovanni Peri and Kevin Shih have been getting popular press lately on their recent paper on the H-1B visa program in the U.S. A recent article in Forbes argues in support of expanding the H-1B program, while The Atlantic argues against expansion of the H-1B program. Recently, the Washington Post favorably cited their work as well. The working paper is entitled “STEM Workers, H1B Visas and Productivity in US Cities.”
The full article from the Colgate website is available here.