Study Shows Immigrants Hold Key Jobs in U.S. Pharma Sector – India West: Business

While the foreign-born make up just 13% of the U.S. population, they hold about 17% of the jobs in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, according to a study by the Institute for Immigration Research at George Mason University in Fairfax. Va.

Even more significantly, the report points out, immigrants constitute 33% of the total research and development workforce and more than 40% of the scientists.

India is by a wide margin the top place of origin for U.S. pharmaceutical workers…

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