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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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Export-Magnification Effect of Offshoring

Kleinert, Jörn; Zorell, Nico - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2010

between offshoring and exports. We model a world consisting of many advanced countries that trade differentiated goods among …

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Merry Sisterhood or Guarded Watchfulness? Cooperation Between the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank

Fabricius, Michael - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2007

Since their inception at the end of the Second World War, the sister organizations of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have aimed to consistently speak with one voice vis-à-vis their member governments. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that they often do not speak 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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Exploiting the Potential for Services Offshoring: Evidence from German Firms

Eppinger, Peter S. - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2014

Services offshoring is on the rise. Due to recent innovations in communication technologies, many services that used to … over the past decades, indicating under-exploitation of the potential for services offshoring. To understand this … establishes that the level of services offshoring is lower in industries with greater offshoring potentials, as captured by their …

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Offshoring Potential and Employment Dynamics

Boockmann, bernhard - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2014

This study addresses the impact of offshorability (a job characteristic indicating how easily a job can be offshored) on employment changes and worker mobility in Germany. A composite measure of offshorability for German data is used which broadens existing measurements such as Blinder (2009)....

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Foreign Investment and Supply Chains in Emerging Markets: Recurring Problems and Demonstrated Solutions

Moran, Theodore Harvey - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2014

Multinational corporations account for 80 percent of all transfers of goods and services across borders, either within their own affiliate transactions or through networks with independent providers. As a result, the term supply chains is rapidly becoming the new norm in discussing the spread of...

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