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getthefacts Donating Member (190 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 10:38 AM
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US lawmakers may be seeking to restrict entry of skilled foreign workers to save jobs of their citizens, but a new research shows that firms founded by immigrants from places like India are creating thousands of jobs every year in the country. In a new study, researchers from Duke University, along with the University of California-Berkeley, and the Kauffman Foundation, showed that Skilled, Educated Immigrants Contribute Significantly to U.S. Economy and that 25.3 pc US tech firms started by immigrants.

Almost 26 percent of all immigrant-founded companies in the past 10 years were founded by Indian immigrants. Immigrants from the United Kingdom, China and Taiwan contributed to 7.1 percent, 6.9 percent and 5.8 percent of all immigrant-founded businesses, respectively.

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/02/16/study-immigrants-make-tech-jobs-not-take-them


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One-fourth US tech firms started by Indians, other foreigners


15 Feb 2009, 1930 hrs IST, PTI


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NEW YORK: The US lawmakers may be seeking to restrict entry of skilled foreign workers to save jobs of their citizens, but a new research shows that Nine trends for IT in 2009
Cities that are IT hubs
Technology Watch
Bangalore: India's best IT spot
firms founded by immigrants from places like India are creating thousands of jobs every year in the country.

The research, conducted by professors of Duke University and the University of California, also shows that an immigrant figures among the founders of every fourth engineering and technology firm in the country

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/One-fourth_US_tech_firms_started_by_Indians/articleshow/4131930.cms
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 10:41 AM
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1. yeah, they make the jobs in their country and American business leader
take the job from here and fill them over there. See the article wasn't a complete lie.
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