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It doesn't need any difference between the labor pools. America has 1000 great workers (toy example), India has 3 times the population, same quality labor pool, so they have 3000 great workers (TOY EXAMPLE), then, assuming America can actually find a need for, say, 2000 great workers, then the only way we could fill those jobs is by importing great workers.
I don't agree with this and think the high-skill immigration argument is 99% fake, but the argument works even if the labor pools are exactly the same.
They even work if the labor pools are very different and the foreign country is way worse. Say the top 10% of American workers is the same as the top 1% of Indian workers, the US is still operating with a fundamentally limited pool of around 20 million top 10% workers, if we need/want more than that, we can import them from the 9 million top 1% of Indian workers.
But why would you expect that the American labor pool is full of lemons but the Indian pool is not? Sure assuming identical distribution of talents there are 3x but why then are Indians not subject to lemon effects that OP claims make it hard to hire qualified Americans?
OP’s argument is that it’s easier to hire overseas workers because the international labor market is different so you don’t have the lemon problem you have in the US. Why does OP believe this?
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