Before an appeals court panel considers arguments next week on President Donald Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee, academic research bolstering the policy is under scrutiny for errors that critics say contributed to faulty conclusions about wage gaps with American workers.
Trump said the visa fee would help ensure that only the best workers are hired through the H-1B program. That’s the conclusion Harvard University Professor George Borjas, a senior policy adviser at the Council of Economic Advisers until earlier this year, reached in a recent paperbacking a six-figure H-1B fee.
He found that workers hired through the specialty occupation visa ...