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CPSR-GLOBAL Digest 783
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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 20:18:13 -1200
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Edupage, 31 March 1998.
HIGH-TECH CHEAP LABOR SHORTAGE
The computer industry has been lobbying Congress to allow more foreign
computer science specialists into the country to fill what they say is a
significant gap between the number of high-tech jobs and the number of
skilled workers available. But University of California professor Norman
Matloff says the real shortage is not in skilled workers, but in cheap
skilled workers: "The simple answer is they want to save money. They save
money by hiring from two main groups of people. Number one, the new college
graduates... Compared to the midcareer people, they make less in terms of
salary. And they cost less in terms of benefits, because they're usually
single and have no dependents. The second group of cheap labor is the H1-B
(temporary visas for skilled personnel) work visa people. They, on average,
make less than comparable domestic workers. That doesn't mean that all
employers who hire H1-Bs are exploiting them. But there are an awful lot
that do." Matloff says the industry focus on inexpensive employees has
meant a lot of software engineers in their 30s and 40s looking for new jobs,
or getting out of the business altogether. (Investor's Business Daily 30
Mar 98)
GOODBYE STAMPS, HELLO INFORMATION-BASED INDICIA
The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled the first electronic stamps, which it
refers to as "information-based indicia." With this system, a personal
computer prints the stamp (sorry, information-based indicia) directly on the
envelope at the same time it prints the address. Customers will pay an
as-yet-to-be-determined transaction fee to download postage. (AP 31 Mar 98)
Edupage is written by John Gehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and Suzanne Douglas
([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Telephone: 770-590-1017
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