Only an economist could believe something so stupid (proven by “evidence”) that H-1B visas are good for American workers. First, over what time scale, and second, in what circumstances?

Oh, companies bring in more H-1Bs and hire more American workers at the same time? And pray tell, when does this happen? When the economy is expanding. Some insight, there. I am getting accustomed to seeing through the typical economist tricks and salary-motivated mistakes so it just doesn’t take me as long as it used to.

This is also common methodological error in economics papers: presume the existence of the item you are claiming benefits the economy and/or workers, and then fail to examine worlds without the existence of said “beneficial” program as they cannot be tested. Fail to mention this or to account for it in any way. Thus, your paper’s postulation is merely a tautology, though gussied up in a lot of impenetrable mathematical formalism. As Taleb has pointed out, most economics papers have this problem.