(Emerald, 2019-11-13) Lambert, Jason R.; Akinlade, Ekundayo Y.
Purpose: There has been an increasing number of allegations of discrimination toward US employees and anecdotal indications of immigrant employee exploitation in the information technology sector. The purpose of this paper is to investigate if applicants’ work visa status causes native-born applicants to be treated differentially (less favorably) than foreign-born applicants.