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Outsourcing and Skill Imports: Foreign High-Skilled Workers on H-1B and L-1 Visas in the United States

Kirkegaard, Jacob Funk - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2005

This working paper looks in detail at the H-1B and L-1 visa programs for temporary employment in the United States. Based on official data from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the US Department of State, H-1B and L-1 visa issuance rapidly increased in the late 1990s, followed by...

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American Multinationals and American Economic Interests: New Dimensions to an Old Debate

Moran, Theodore H. - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2009

The 2008 election rekindled debate about whether US multinationals shift technology across borders and relocate production in ways that might harm workers and communities at home. President Obama now pledges to end tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas. The preoccupation about the...

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Outsourcing versus Integration at Home or Abroad

Federico, Stefano - Banca d'Italia - 2010

mode of organization (outsourcing versus integration) of intermediate inputs production. We find evidence of a productivity … productive and domestic outsourcing by the least productive firms; those with medium-high productivity choose domestic … integration, those with medium-low productivity foreign outsourcing. We also find that the preference for integration over …

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Tradable Services: Understanding the Scope and Impact of Services Outsourcing

Jensen, J. Bradford; Kletzer, Lori G. - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2005

We develop a new empirical approach to identify tradable service activities. Contrary to conventional views of service activities as nontradable, we find a significant number of service industries and occupations that appear tradable and substantial employment in these tradable activities....

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The Italian firms between crisis and the new globalization

Accetturo, Antonio; Giunta, Anna; Rossi, Salvatore - Banca d'Italia - 2011

This paper analyzes the characteristics of Italian firms involved in global value chains (ï¿½intermediateï¿½ firms) by using the Bank of Italy survey on industrial companies. Intermediate firms show, on average, worse features than ï¿½finalï¿½ firms: smaller size, lower share of...

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Foreign Direct Investment in Times of Crisis

Poulsen, Lauge Skovgaard; Hufbauer, Gary Clyde - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2011

This paper compares the current foreign direct investment (FDI) recession with FDI responses to past economic crises. The authors find that although developed country outflows have taken an equally big hit as major developed countries have after past crises, outflows seem to be bouncing back...

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The internationalization of the Italian productive system

Cristadoro, Riccardo; Federico, Stefano - Banca d'Italia - 2015

This work presents, in a single framework, the results of several recent studies, carried out by Bank of Italy researchers, on the internationalization of the Italian productive system. The notion of internationalization is considered not only from the perspective of direct investments abroad...

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Foreign direct investment and multinational firms

Borin, Alessandro; Cristadoro, Riccardo - Banca d'Italia - 2014

Since the early 1990s internationalization has moved forward very rapidly. With the reorganization of production processes on a global scale, the average growth rate of foreign direct investment (FDI) has exceeded that of GDP and trade, and its geographical and sectoral distribution has changed....

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Geography of internationalization statistics

Bentivogli, Chiara; Oddo, Giacomo; Pellegrini, Valeria - Banca d'Italia - 2014

The paper presents an overview of available statistics on the internationalization of the Italian economy. The different sources are compared in terms of completeness, consistency and compatibility, timeliness, relevance and frequency of revisions, presence of systematic biases and significant...

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The Determinants of Cross-Border Bank Shareholdings; an Analysis with Bank-Level Data from OECD Countries

Focarelli, Dario; Pozzolo, Alberto Franco - Banca d'Italia - 2000

TThis paper investigates which factors determine a bank's decision to expand its activities abroad and what determines its choice of the countries to invest in. The empirical analysis is conducted using firm-level data on foreign subsidiaries for a representative sample of nearly 2,500 OECD...

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