Tapsearch Com EditorMore on Bill Gates and immigration
March 30th 2007 02:58
Over the last couple weeks I've made a few comments about skilled immigration. My basic idea has been that U.S. leaders take a pretty hard stance against both skilled and unskilled immigrants, but they only enforce the laws against the skilled. I even supported Bill Gates in arguing for more high-skill labor.
VDARE has a great piece up, though, debunking Gates's thesis that the U.S. is actually falling behind in skilled laborers.
Best point:
By Robert VerBruggen
VDARE has a great piece up, though, debunking Gates's thesis that the U.S. is actually falling behind in skilled laborers.
Best point:
If, as Gates suggests, there is a shortage of scientists and engineers, the salaries paid to them should be rising. But they aren’t. Starting salaries offered to computer science BAs in the Class of 2006 were 2.2 percent above the prior year’s, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers. With inflation at 3.2 percent, this translates to a 1.2 percent reduction in real salaries. And 2006 was a fairly good year for these folks. Over the prior four years (2001-2005) the real starting salaries of computer science BAs fell a whopping 12.7 percent.
Newly minted MAs suffered a similar fate. Real starting salaries for computer science MAs fell 6.6 percent, while those of computer engineering MAs fell a whopping 13.7 percent, between 2001 and 2005.
Newly minted MAs suffered a similar fate. Real starting salaries for computer science MAs fell 6.6 percent, while those of computer engineering MAs fell a whopping 13.7 percent, between 2001 and 2005.
By Robert VerBruggen
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