@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp18333,
            	author={Sparber, Chad},
            	title={Weighting the H-1B Lottery: Implications for Worker and Diversity and Employment Concentration},
            	year={2025},
	month={Dec},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={18333},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18333},
	abstract={The H-1B program allows firms in the United States to temporarily hire foreign workers in specialty occupations. Demand outstrips supply, and the government allocates status through a random lottery. In September 2025, The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed a new lottery process that would weight applications favoring workers receiving higher wage offers. This short article demonstrates that a weighted lottery would increase the ethnic diversity of H-1B recipients. Implications for H-1B employment concentration are particularly sensitive to threshold cutoffs used to construct weights.},
	keywords={lottery;H-1B;skilled workers;ethnic diversity},
            }