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Job seekers from India, Britain, Canada, the Philippines and Australia are most interested in getting work in the United States. Their job searches aren’t random. Indians looking for U.S. jobs are mostly interested in tech positions. Though job-seekers from other countries have broader interests, their hunts seem to be well-researched and effectively targeted. “They’re looking where the jobs are,” Sinclair says.
Naturally, just because foreigners are interested in working in the United States doesn’t mean they’ll get a job here. It’s not always easy to get a U.S. work visa, and there are caps on some types of visas, including the H-1B visas required for some tech and specialized workers. Several high-profile employers want Congress to raise these caps, allowing them to hire more skilled foreigners. But that issue tends to get conflated with the more controversial debate over illegal immigration, which has stalled its prospects.
Some Americans feel Washington should put strict limits on the number of foreigners allowed to work in the United States, especially in the midst of a weak economy with elevated unemployment. But “labor flows” between cities, states and countries are a vital mechanism for helping the economy rebalance itself, as workers go where the jobs are and leave places with declining opportunity. Strong global interest in working in the United States supports other data showing the U.S. economy, for all its problems, remains one of the most dynamic anywhere.
There are also a lot of people in the United States who are interested in working someplace else, which reflects the multidirectional flow of commerce in an increasingly globalized economy. The No. 1 country of interest for people in the United States is India. That most likely reveals that a lot of Indians in America for school or work want to return to their native land and cash in on a booming economy. That squares with India’s rise as a capitalist power and new opportunities to become prosperous or even get rich there. It also suggests a kind of reverse brain drain may be underway, with the United States losing bright, well-educated workers from overseas who came to America for the opportunity but now see greener pastures back home.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/foreign-workers-still-love-the-united-states-143954889.html
Naturally, just because foreigners are interested in working in the United States doesn’t mean they’ll get a job here. It’s not always easy to get a U.S. work visa, and there are caps on some types of visas, including the H-1B visas required for some tech and specialized workers. Several high-profile employers want Congress to raise these caps, allowing them to hire more skilled foreigners. But that issue tends to get conflated with the more controversial debate over illegal immigration, which has stalled its prospects.
Some Americans feel Washington should put strict limits on the number of foreigners allowed to work in the United States, especially in the midst of a weak economy with elevated unemployment. But “labor flows” between cities, states and countries are a vital mechanism for helping the economy rebalance itself, as workers go where the jobs are and leave places with declining opportunity. Strong global interest in working in the United States supports other data showing the U.S. economy, for all its problems, remains one of the most dynamic anywhere.
There are also a lot of people in the United States who are interested in working someplace else, which reflects the multidirectional flow of commerce in an increasingly globalized economy. The No. 1 country of interest for people in the United States is India. That most likely reveals that a lot of Indians in America for school or work want to return to their native land and cash in on a booming economy. That squares with India’s rise as a capitalist power and new opportunities to become prosperous or even get rich there. It also suggests a kind of reverse brain drain may be underway, with the United States losing bright, well-educated workers from overseas who came to America for the opportunity but now see greener pastures back home.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/foreign-workers-still-love-the-united-states-143954889.html
