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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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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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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 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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Who Goes East? The Impact of Enlargement on the Patterns of German FDI

Buch, Claudia M.; Kleinert, Jörn - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2006

Affiliates of German firms in Eastern Europe differ from those in the rest of the world. They have smaller sales and they employ more labor. Labor productivity is thus lower than in affiliates of German firms elsewhere. Moreover, multinational activity in Eastern Europe is mostly unilaterally...

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