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

[kjkhoo at softhome.net]

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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