The recognition of same-sex marriage across the European Union has had a negative impact on the US economy, causing the number of highly skilled foreign workers seeking visas to drop by about 21%, according to a new study.
https://newatlas.com/lifestyle/same-sex-marriage-recognition-us-immigration/
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Smart, skilled people want to live in places with high incomes and lots of freedom.
Good news about same sex marriage in the EU. But its availability has not had a negative economic impact on the US – the US still has far more highly skilled workers applying for visas than can be accommodated. There is zero impact to “the US economy.”
Just bad headline writing I guess.
Not dunking on gay marriage, but surely if this was a trend it would have multiple causes?
Inclusivity is good for economy. That’s hardly news
Isn’t Europe going through a big brain drain and a pension crisis?
US will boost their work force by having outlawed abortion.
Im now picturing Biden and his cabinet sitting around a table trying to figure out how to make Europe homophobic again, for the economy’s sake. Its very funny. And then I picture Trump doing the same and realize that seems like something that couldve actually happened except without the economy bit
It also attracts people. I moved here with my now partner.
>The present study didn’t include the sexual orientation of H-B1 visa holders, but the researchers say the effect of same-sex marriage recognition was made clear by the movement of skilled labor.
So at best they found a correlation that could have other explanations, not a causation, but they’ll say it was causation anyway.
Oh noes!
Anyway….
So, globally 93% of men and 87% of women identify as completely heterosexual. This makes it statistically impossible for gay marriage to cause the number of visa seekers to drop by 21%, unless Europe is statistically far gayer than the global average to the point of being a huge outlier.
Damn, so this policy filtered out the worst of the homophobes from Europe eh
A BS title. It’s correlation, not causation.
I am sure that was the only cause.
Same sex marriage is legal in every state in the US…this article doesn’t make sense.
Man that article and the data they have used is al over the place. Lmao, i wonder if people even clicked on the link.
“The present study didn’t include the sexual orientation of H-B1 visa holders, but the researchers say the effect of same-sex marriage recognition was made clear by the movement of skilled labor. Data shows that, on average, same-sex couples are more educated and more likely to work in highly skilled jobs than different-sex couples.”
So they don’t even have any real data to link it to sexual orientation. And the article the “study” references is also highly dubious btw. This is called bad science and bad statistics.
Click on the link and tell me with a straight face that the article actually proves anything.
People just read the heading and go “hurr durr”.
Same sex marriage is completely legal in the US as well though?
Not that sure if thats the only reason, the USA is far from appealing now compared to the 90’s-2000’s;
The war on drugs didnt go so well, the abortion rules has the country divided, the politics are in shambles etc.
All six American acquaintances I have, who live here in Denmark, fit right into this.
They are all highly skilled. Four are LGBT+ and moved here because of safety, better options, acceptance.
The last two are a (also US) couple that lived in the UK and decided to leave because of Brexit and increasingly conservative politics.
USA is happily digging its own grave, while thinking it is building a tower.
So why is europe still behind economically?