%0 Report
        %A Sparber, Chad
        %T Weighting the H-1B Lottery: Implications for Worker and Diversity and Employment Concentration
        %D 2025
        %8 2025 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 18333
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18333
        %X 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.
        %K lottery
%K H-1B
%K skilled workers
%K ethnic diversity