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From: Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:04:42 -0500
HIGH-TECH WORKERS FROM OVERSEAS There is a growing debate over the recruitment of high-tech expertise from abroad. A division of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers says that more than 146,000 engineers lost their jobs between 1990 and 1994, a period during which more than 200,000 foreign-born engineers were admitted to work in the U.S. The companies hiring professionals from abroad say the practice is necessary in order for them to remain competitive, whereas IEEE-USA chair Joel Snyder argues that such employers "want a high-tech workforce in the United States that will accept Third World wages and working conditions." Snyder says the trend toward lower wages in technical markets will hurt the U.S. educational system, because university students will be discouraged from enrolling in engineering and programming. Support for those programs will therefore drop, along with program quality. (Computer Feb 96 p10)
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