from edupage:
> WHAT HIGH-TECH LABOR SHORTAGE?
> For the past several years, officials from Microsoft, Intel and other
> high-tech companies have lobbied Congress to increase the number of skilled
> foreign workers allowed into the country each year, citing a labor shortage
> that leaves 350,000 jobs now open. But an American University economics
> professor says, "There's no evidence that the computer industry has worse
> labor shortages than other high-skilled industries." Robert Lerman says
> that high-tech companies may feel the labor pinch more acutely because of
> its high reliance on temporary workers, who are becoming less plentiful as
> more full-time positions are opening up. But according the Bureau of Labor
> Statistics, even though the number of computer scientists has tripled in the
> last ten years, their pay rate has increased only 4.4% above inflation --
> far below other types of workers such as surveyors (20% above inflation) and
> dietitians (17%). Programmers' pay has actually lagged inflation since 1988
> by 1.5%. "If employers were desperate, they'd be willing to pay more," says
> Norman Matloff, a computer science professor at University of California at
> Davis. (Business Week 29 Jun 98)
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