Foreign National Scientists and Engineers in the United States Workforce

摘要

This study addresses two questions: (1) How many immigrant scientists and engineers (S/Es) are there. (2) What work do immigrant S/Es do, and how are they paid relative to natives. For Ph.D.'s we obtained the cooperation of the National Research Council (NRC) and the Social Security Administration, to examine all the recipients of engineering Ph.D.'s in 1980 and 1981 and to find out what proportion had $5000 or more of earnings in the US in 1982. Results indicate that 62% of all non-citizen graduates (and half of those on temporary visas) in engineering and computer science remained in the US. (ERA citation 12:003185)