With an unemployment rate of more than 9 percent and significant underemployment, some argue highly skilled foreign-born workers should be restricted from entering the United States on work visas. But do foreign workers really depress the wages of American workers as some reports claim?

In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, Henry C. Lucas Jr. and Sunil Mithas discuss their recent study of more than 50,000 information technology professionals that provides evidence to support the employment of highly skilled foreign workers in the U.S.