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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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Ett kunskapsperspektiv på outsourcing

Rognes, Jon - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2007

underleverantörer, så kallad business process outsourcing (BPO). Vi har studerat hur en sådan separering påverkar processer och … förutsättningar för kunskapsbildning och lärande i en organisation. Studien inleds med en översikt över BPO-området idag. Outsourcing …- och rationaliseringsprocess har outsourcing de senaste åren blivit ett allt vanligare alternativ. I detta projekt har vi …

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Offshoring and Directed Technical Change

Acemoglu, Daron; Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

We study the short- and long-run implications of offshoring on innovation, technology adoption, wage and income …-abundant West to a skill-scarce East. Profit maximization determines both the extent of offshoring and technological progress …. offshoring induces technical change with an ambiguous factor bias. When the initial level of offshoring is low, an increase in …

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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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Horizontal Innovation in the Theory of Growth and Development

Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

We analyze recent contributions to growth theory based on the model of expanding variety of Romer (1990). In the first part, we present different versions of the benchmark linear model with imperfect competition. These include the "lab equipment" model, "labor-for-intermediates" and "directed...

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Learning How to Export

Segerstrom, Paul; Stepanok, Ignat - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2010

In this paper, we present a standard quality ladders endogenous growth model with one significant new assumption, that it takes time for firms to learn how to export. We show that this model without Melitz-type assumptions can account for all the evidence that the Melitz (2003) model was...

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