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0 pointsNovemberWhiskey2y ago0 comments

>Equal to an American in legal rights perhaps, but there is no right to competitive pay.

The theoretical factor that's supposed to depress pay for workers on non-immigrant visas is that they don't have easy job mobility - the bar to hire an H-1B is much higher than to hire a US native worker. Once you have an EB-2 (an immigrant visa, that entitles you to a Green Card), that no longer applies - modulo national-security type positions that require citizenship you're just as hirable as a US native.

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liquidpele2y ago

> The theoretical factor that's supposed to depress pay for workers on non-immigrant visas is that they don't have easy job mobility

There’s more to it than that, but that’s one of the big ones. Have you worked with foreign contractors/outsourcing before? If so you know why jumping to another job would be difficult.

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0 pointsNovemberWhiskey2y ago0 comments

>Equal to an American in legal rights perhaps, but there is no right to competitive pay.

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liquidpele2y ago

> The theoretical factor that's supposed to depress pay for workers on non-immigrant visas is that they don't have easy job mobility

There’s more to it than that, but that’s one of the big ones. Have you worked with foreign contractors/outsourcing before? If so you know why jumping to another job would be difficult.

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