Below are important studies and statistics for American Professional workers.

H-1B

• Into the Eye of the Storm: Assessing the Evidence on Science and Engineering Education, Quality, and Workforce Demand (Research Report)

Author(s): B. Lindsay Lowell, Harold Salzman
Recent policy reports claim the United States is falling behind other nations in science and math education and graduating insufficient numbers of scientists and engineers. Review of the evidence and analysis of actual graduation rates and workforce needs does not find support for these claims. U.S. student performance rankings are comparable to other leading nations and colleges graduate far more scientists and engineers than are hired each year. Instead, the evidence suggests targeted education improvements are needed for the lowest performers and demand-side factors may be insufficient to attract qualified college graduates.

• Michael S. Teitelbaum, "Do We Need More Scientists?", The Public Interest, Number 153, Fall 2003.

Outsourcing

• How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?, CEPS working paper no. 142, March 2007, Dr. Alan S. Blinder.
• Where Ricardo and Mill Rebut and Confirm Arguments of Mainstream Economists Supporting Globalization - Paul Samuelson, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2004.
  Samuelson proves the assumption that the laws of economics dictate that the U.S. economy will benefit in the long run from all forms of trade, including outsourcing, is false.

GAO

• H-1B Foreign Workers: Better Tracking Needed to Help Determine H-1B Program’s Effects on
  U.S. Workforce, September 2003

NRC

• NRC H-1B Report

Ron Hira

• U.S. immigration regulations and India’s information technology industry, January 2004
• Utilizing Immigration Regulations as a Competitive Advantage: An Additional
  Explanation for India’s Success in Exporting Information Technology Services, March 2003

Norm Matloff

• H-1Bs: Still Not the Best and the Brightest, May 2008
• Best? Brightest? A Green Card Giveaway for Foreign Grads Would Be Unwarranted, May 2006
• On the Need for Reform of the H-1B Non-immigrant Work Visa in Computer Related Occupations, December 2003

John Miano

• H-1B Visa Numbers: No Relationship to Economic Need, June 2008

Legislative Projections

• Projected Numbers of Foreign Computer and Engineering Workers Under the Senate’s Comprehensive Immigration
  Reform Act (S.2611), August 2006