원제 : 


[Debunking the Myth of Desperate Software Labor Shortage] 





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이 글은 캘리포니아 대학 컴퓨터 과학과에 Norman Matloff박사 


가 작성한 논문입니다. 





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1 요약-----------


Due to an extensive public relations campaign orchestrated by an industry
trade organization, the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA),
a rash of newspaper articles have been appearing since early 1997, claiming
desperate labor shortages in the information-technology field. Frantic
employers complain that they cannot fill many open positions for computer
programmers.


1 Yet readers of the articles proclaiming a shortage would be perplexed if
they also knew that Microsoft only hires 2% of its applicants for software
positions, and that this rate is typical in the industry. Software employers,
large or small, across the nation, concede that they receive huge numbers of
re’sume’s but reject most of them without even an interview. One does not
have to be a "techie” to see the contradiction here. If employers were that
desperate, they would certainly not be hiring just a minuscule fraction of
their job applicants.


The hidden agenda of the ITAA public relations campaign turned out to be to
leverage Congress to increase the yearly quota of H-1B work visas, under
which employers were importing tens of thousands of program-mers to the U.S.
each year. The campaign succeeded, with President Clinton signing the
increase into law in October 1998. Yet in 1999 the industry has been calling
for even further increases in the visa quota.