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Trade in Intermediate Goods and Services

Miroudot, Sébastien; Lanz, Rainer; Ragoussis, Alexandros - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2009

This study analyses trade flows in intermediate goods and services among OECD countries and with their main trading partners. Combining trade data and input-output tables, bilateral trade in intermediate goods and services is estimated according to the industry of origin and the using industry...

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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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Trade and Labour Market Adjustments

Hill, Samuel; Lesher, Molly; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2008

them. It depicts recent developments in offshoring, trade in tasks and the integration of large emerging economies into the … labour demand in the importcompeting sectors or activities. Offshoring of services has a relatively strong positive marginal … impact on labour productivity, but the scale of offshoring is still modest. The labour market impact of offshoring is …

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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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