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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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Outsourcing and Employment: A Decomposition Approach

Koller, W.; Stehrer, Robert - FIW - 2008

In this paper we study the employment effects of changes in the levels and patterns of outsourcing in the Austrian … components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates. For this some further … indirect effects of changes in the levels and structures of outsourcing.Second, the framework takes account of all 60 sectors …

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The Effects of Production Offshoring on R&D and Innovation in the Home Country

Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd - FIW - 2013

offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … firms which have offshored production activities in a previous period to a control group of non-offshoring firms. The … analysis finds no negative effect of production offshoring on innovation and technological capabilities of firms in the home …

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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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Does Aid for Education Attract Foreign Investors? An Empirical Analysis for Latin America

Donaubauer, Julian; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - FIW - 2013

We address the question of whether foreign aid helps attract foreign direct investment (FDI). This could be achieved if well targeted aid removed critical impediments to higher FDI inflows. In particular, we test the hypothesis that aid for education is an effective means to increase FDI flows...

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Incomplete specialization and offshoring across Europe

Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evžen - FIW - 2012

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has … competing with the role of multilateral trade resistance. Our results support evidence for offshoring activities across Europe …

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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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FDI and Corporate Geography in the Home Country

Cappariello, Rita; Federico, Stefano; Zizza, Roberta - FIW - 2010

This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the home-country effects of FDI. Instead of comparing FDI firms to non-FDI firms, we look at what happens within multi-plant FDI firms and we compare headquarters to onheadquarter plants belonging to the same firm. Using survey data on...

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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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