TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Sparber, Chad
        TI  - Weighting the H-1B Lottery: Implications for Worker and Diversity and Employment Concentration
        PY  - 2025/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18333
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18333
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - lottery
KW  - H-1B
KW  - skilled workers
KW  - ethnic diversity
        ER  -