[lbo-talk] U.S. Engineering Unemployment Reaches 7 Percent

kjkhoo at softhome.net kjkhoo at softhome.net
Thu Jul 3 10:16:17 PDT 2003


Happened to just look at the BLS analysis of its 1988-2000 occupation projections, and it turned out that their projections for electrical and electronics engineers was way off. There was an absolute decline in the number of electrical and electronics engineers in 2000 compared to 1988, and way off from their projection of a huge increase.

Now surely H1-B visa holders would be included in that count of e&e in 2000? If so, then this blaming of cheaper immigrants can't be correct. Also that outsourcing alone can't account for that absolute decline.

Can someone more familiar with these BLS statistics explain?

kj khoo

Kevin Robert Dean wrote:
>IEEE Spectrum Magazine
>27-Jun-03
>
>U.S. Engineering Unemployment Reaches 7 Percent
>Library: BIZ
>Keywords: ENGINEERING WORKFORCE ENGINEERING LABOR JOB
>MARKET JOBLESS OUTSOURCING H-1B VISA L-1 VISA BUREAU OF
>LABOR STATISTICS
>Description: As U.S. electrical engineers face record-high
>unemployment, questions arise over outsourcing and
>immigration policies. (IEEE Spectrum, Jul-2003)
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