DETROIT -- A minivan carrying a group of Indian computer programmers and their wives on the way to a Niagara Falls vacation flipped and crashed in western Pennsylvania, killing six of seven people ...

But computer work is a quintessential tradable good ... So you might think the difference in compensation between American and Indian programmers overwhelmingly reflects differences in skills.

This takes away the cost advantage of hiring cheap from, say India. Computer programmers in India looking to head to the US would find their long-held dream dashed. The United States Citizenship ...