Rethinking immigration policies for STEM Ph.D.'s
E-Mail While U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have supported policies aimed at retaining top U.S.-trained scientists and engineers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, Michael Roach and John Skrentny argue that current immigration policies make the path to permanent residency for foreign-born Ph.D.'s complicated and uncertain. Using data from a survey that followed 1,597 U.S. citizen and foreign-born science and engineering Ph.D.'s from U.S. research universities into their first industry jobs, Roach and Skrentny show that the highly controversial H-1B...