Comments on: Voting with their Wallets http://scienceprogress.org/2009/12/voting-with-their-wallets/ Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: B http://scienceprogress.org/2009/12/voting-with-their-wallets/comment-page-1/#comment-6993 B Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:06:05 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/?p=4963#comment-6993 Employers can legally discriminate against qualified Americans by firing them without cause and recruiting only H-1B guest-workers to replace them. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has said: “H-1B workers may be hired even when a qualified U.S. worker wants the job, and a U.S. worker can be displaced from the job in favor of a foreign worker.” Some companies that discriminate against American workers are so brazen that their job advertisements say “H-1B visa holders only.” And some companies in the United States have workforces that consist almost entirely of H-1B guest-workers. Employers can legally discriminate against qualified Americans by firing them without cause and recruiting only H-1B guest-workers to replace them. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has said: “H-1B workers may be hired even when a qualified U.S. worker wants the job, and a U.S. worker can be displaced from the job in favor of a foreign worker.” Some companies that discriminate against American workers are so brazen that their job advertisements say “H-1B visa holders only.” And some companies in the United States have workforces that consist almost entirely of H-1B guest-workers.

]]> By: Richard Johnson http://scienceprogress.org/2009/12/voting-with-their-wallets/comment-page-1/#comment-6928 Richard Johnson Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:03:00 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/?p=4963#comment-6928 Nice article. I don't think a market based solution is as simple as implied but the discussion has to start somewhere. But what is the extended comment by Jenson - it looks like a sales pitch that was just dropped in, with no connection to the article. Very tackey of Jenson or am I missing something. Aren't the comments vetted? Nice article. I don’t think a market based solution is as simple as implied but the discussion has to start somewhere. But what is the extended comment by Jenson – it looks like a sales pitch that was just dropped in, with no connection to the article. Very tackey of Jenson or am I missing something. Aren’t the comments vetted?

]]> By: Joanna Bryson http://scienceprogress.org/2009/12/voting-with-their-wallets/comment-page-1/#comment-6555 Joanna Bryson Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:45:21 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/?p=4963#comment-6555 This article is interesting, but I don't understand the last paragraph. How can we make the government be capitalist about increasing the salaries of STEM? I think what you are really asking for is direct intervention in the way Universities and research laboratories allocate their resources? If capitalism is going to do the job, then I think the problem is that people don't know how to recognize and hire talent in STEM. If they did, then there wouldn't be an issue of uncertainty in getting the plum academic jobs if you were the "top talent". What we may really need is research into hiring, grant allocation, and so forth. But it may be that this recognition of talent and "right" idea is just too hard, computationally. That would make it hard for market forces to inject much money, since the average worker isn't worth the cost. In that case you are really calling for old-fashioned intervention, to STEM positions unnaturally high-paying, because you think the benefit of bringing the elite back into the field will outweigh the cost of bringing more of the average folks in too. This article is interesting, but I don’t understand the last paragraph. How can we make the government be capitalist about increasing the salaries of STEM? I think what you are really asking for is direct intervention in the way Universities and research laboratories allocate their resources?

If capitalism is going to do the job, then I think the problem is that people don’t know how to recognize and hire talent in STEM. If they did, then there wouldn’t be an issue of uncertainty in getting the plum academic jobs if you were the “top talent”. What we may really need is research into hiring, grant allocation, and so forth.

But it may be that this recognition of talent and “right” idea is just too hard, computationally. That would make it hard for market forces to inject much money, since the average worker isn’t worth the cost. In that case you are really calling for old-fashioned intervention, to STEM positions unnaturally high-paying, because you think the benefit of bringing the elite back into the field will outweigh the cost of bringing more of the average folks in too.

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