Professor Norm Matloff's H-1B and Offshoring Web Page

• For a quick summary of my views, you might start with my 2006 op-ed.
• I have published an extensive academic paper, at the invitation of the journal, on the H-1B/L-1 issue in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. At 100 pages and 300+ footnotes, this is the most extensive study ever published on this topic. Click here to download the paper.
• Another invited article was the relation of H-1B to age discrimination in the computer industry, published in the California Labor and Employment Law Review, a publication of the California State Bar Association. Many people, even critics of the H-1B program, are unaware of the fact that one of the primary reasons employers like H-1B is that it broadens the young segment of the labor pool, enabling employers to avoid hiring the 45-year-old, or for that matter, 35-year-old, programmers and engineers. Click here to download the article.
• Lately, the industry has argued that it needs new special visa types for those with graduate degrees. Such visas would be unwarranted. See my CIS article on the proposed F-4 visa.
• See also my article on the impact of offshoring on U.S. IT workers, in the CACM, the flagship journal of the world's main computer science professional society. Also, see my advice to firms regarding offshoring, in the journal IT Professional of IEEE, the world's main electrical engineering professional society. Again, both of these articles were written at the invitation of the journals.
• My congressional testimony (130+ pages), in Web version, and the better-formatted PDF form.
• Selected postings from my e-newsletter on the H-1B visa program, age discrimination in the tech industry, and offshoring. The file names usually give an indication as to their subject matter. (If you wish to be on the distribution list of my e-newsletter, please send me an e-mail request.)
• My biography.