Are H-1B workers really hired just so companies can pay them less, resulting in displaced American workers? Hoover Senior Fellow, Paola Sapienza, and Institute for Progress’ Distinguished Immigration Counsel, Amy Nice, examine recently obtained data and explain why the common claim—that immigrants are hired as a source of cheap labor—doesn't hold up under scrutiny. In fact, the opposite may be true…
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Paola Sapienza is the J-P Conte Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where she co-directs the JP Conte Initiative on Immigration and she is a founding member of the Hoover Program on the Foundations for Economic Prosperity. Her research interests span from corporate governance to financial development, from political economy to the economic effects of culture and the economics of immigration.
Amy Nice is a former Assistant Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she led initiatives on STEM talent policy. Amy practiced law at Dickstein Shapiro in Washington, D.C., for over twenty years, managing the immigration practice from 1997. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Tulane University and earned her law degree from George Washington University.
