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Title: National Data: STEM Wages’ Shocking Stagnation Destroys Case For Increased Immigration
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URL Source: http://www.vdare.com/articles/natio ... case-for-increased-immigration
Published: Mar 25, 2015
Author: Edwin S. Rubenstein
Post Date: 2015-03-25 11:41:19 by nativist nationalist
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Last week’s damaging Senate Judiciary Committee testimony (see here and here) suggests that legislation expanding H-1B program is going nowhere (which may be why the Regime is threatening one of its imperial decrees for guest workers: Indian IT Industry Gets a Boost As Obama Decides To Ease L-1B Visa Norms, by Mohul Gosh, Trak.in, March 24, 2015. But all the evidence you really need is in our chart above. (Mouseover for the underlying data).

When a commodity is in short supply its price rises, thereby increasing supply, reducing demand, and eventually eliminating the shortage. If STEM workers were in short supply, their earnings would be increasing rapidly. Instead, the data show long-term stagnation

Average real earnings for all STEM workers rose by a mere 0.4% per annum over the 2000 to 2012 period, according to a Center for Immigration Studies report published in 2014. No STEM category escaped stagnation: average annual income growth ranged from a low of 0.2% per annum for Science workers to a high of 0.6% per annum for Engineers.

To be sure, total STEM employment increased over this period—from 4.3 million in 2000 to 5.3 million in 2012. But although immigrants accounted for 27% of all STEM workers in 2012, they accounted for 45% of the STEM employment gain over this period.

With immigrants filling an increasing share of STEM employment, many readers might conclude that foreign-born workers are needed to meet the increased demand for STEM workers. That would be the wrong. If anything, there is a glut of STEM workers—a glut exacerbated by the very influx of immigrants STEM employers clamor for.

Consider these numbers:

There were 12.1 million STEM degree holders (immigrant and native) in 2012— more than twice the 5.3 million STEM workers that year. [The number of potential STEM workers vastly exceeds the number of STEM jobs.] From 2007 to 2012 the U.S. admitted an average of 129,000 immigrants with STEM degrees each year; total STEM employment over that period grew by an average of only 105,000 per year. [This is scandalous, especially considering that an average of 115,000 US-born students per year received stem undergraduate degrees during this period.] 1.2 million U.S.-born STEM degree holders were unemployed or out of the labor force in 2012; another 5 million worked in non-STEM occupations. [These potential STEM workers were either involuntarily displaced, or left for greener (non-STEM) pastures due to the mass influx low-wage immigrants with stem degrees] Nearly one-third of the America’s STEM workers do not have an undergraduate STEM degree. [Further reason to question employers’ push for higher STEM immigration levels.] The overwhelming statistical evidence against the STEM shortage shouters has convinced even normally pro-immigration groups. Recent reports by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the RAND Corporation, the Urban Institute, and the National Research Council find no evidence that STEM workers are in short supply.

The RAND study, published in 2004, looked backward in time and found, “Despite recurring concerns about potential shortages of STEM personnel . . . we did not find evidence that such shortages have existed at least since 1990, nor that they are on the horizon.”

Harvard demographer Michael Teitelbaum [Email him]summarized the literature on STEM in an article entitled The Science and Engineering Shortage Is a Myth in the March 2014 Atlantic: No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelor’s degrees or higher,” he points out.

Teitelbaum is one of the nation’s leading experts on STEM employment, and former vice president of the Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic institution essentially devoted to STEM education.

Even PBS (PBS!) weighed in with an opinion piece based on the EPI study, entitled, “The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage: How Guest Workers Lower U.S. Wages.”

Earlier this year Paul Krugman, [send him mail] Nobel Prize winning economist and op-ed writer for the New York Times, questioned the skills shortage storyline (links in original):

The education-centric story of our problems runs like this: We live in a period of unprecedented technological change, and too many American workers lack the skills to cope with that change. This “skills gap” is holding back growth, because businesses can’t find the workers they need. It also feeds inequality, as wages soar for workers with the right skills but stagnate or decline for the less educated. So what we need is more and better education.

My guess is that this sounds familiar — it’s what you hear from the talking heads on Sunday morning TV, in opinion articles from business leaders like Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, in “framing papers” from the Brookings Institution’s centrist Hamilton Project. It’s repeated so widely that many people probably assume it’s unquestionably true. But it isn’t….

Furthermore, there’s no evidence that a skills gap is holding back employment. After all, if businesses were desperate for workers with certain skills, they would presumably be offering premium wages to attract such workers.

So where are these fortunate professions? You can find some examples here and there. Interestingly, some of the biggest recent wage gains are for skilled manual labor — sewing machine operators, boilermakers — as some manufacturing production moves back to America. But the notion that highly skilled workers are generally in demand is just false….

As for wages and salaries, never mind college degrees — all the big gains are going to a tiny group of individuals holding strategic positions in corporate suites or astride the crossroads of finance. Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power…

[Knowledge Isn’t Power, February 23, 2015] Krugman is right. Powerful individuals over-hype the need for skilled workers to justify importing cheaper ones from abroad, thereby keeping their incomes and profits high.

Note also that non-STEM workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher did even worse—their earnings actually declined (by 0.2% a year) between 2000 and 2012, versus 0.4% a year average increase for STEM. The difference, of course, is that STEM employers are actively lobbying for more foreign-born workers.

They would love to see STEM wages fall also.

But as Senator Jeff Sessions commented at the Judiciary Committee hearing: “We have no obligation to yield the lust of Big Business.”

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#1. To: nativist nationalist (#0)

"Average real earnings for all STEM workers rose by a mere 0.4% per annum over the 2000 to 2012 period"

Then they're doing pretty darn well for themselves. As for the rest of the workers:

"The weak wage growth over 2000–2007, combined with the wage losses for most workers from 2007 to 2012, mean that between 2000 and 2012, wages were flat or declined for the entire bottom 60 percent of the wage distribution (despite productivity growing by nearly 25 percent over this period).

(http://www.epi.org/publication/a-decade-of-flat-wages-the-key- barrier-to-shared-prosperity-and-a-rising-middle-class/)

misterwhite  posted on  2015-03-25   12:10:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: nativist nationalist (#0)

STEM workers are just labor. Labor is a cost of doing business. The purpose of business, according to the prevailing political and economic philosophy, is to produce profits for shareholders. STEM labor is simply a commodity that must be purchased by tech companies to generate profits for their owners.

Therefore, the more that the cost of this commodity can be driven down, the higher the bottom line for investors.

India in particular, but also China, produce huge numbers of reasonably well- trained STEM workers. The more of this commodity we import, the more downward pressure on STEM labor costs, and the higher the profits to shareholders.

THEREFORE, the GOP will support heavy STEM immigration, because it depresses the wages and benefits that need to be paid to American STEM workers. Import more and more from abroad, and you can drive down your costs and increase the profits to executives and shareholders. Such is the game.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-03-25   12:59:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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