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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 in the Austrian economy over the periods 1995-2000 and 2000-2005. Based on an input-output framework, we apply a … coefficients and final demand components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates …
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Relocation is a way of reducing costs, thus increasing competitiveness, by splitting production and services between countries. The main argument kindling the relocation debate suggests that moving abroad generates job losses in the home country, while production and job gains appear only in the...
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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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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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This paper examines the impact of offshoring on labour elasticities for a sample of 40 countries over the period 1995 …-2009 using the recently compiled World Input-Output Database (WIOD). Including measures of narrow and broad offshoring, as well … as indicators of manufacturing and services offshoring, in conditional and unconditional labour demand equations we find …
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In this paper we examine the link between international outsourcing – or offshoring – and the skill structure of labour … cross-industry dimension and split employment into three skill categories. Our results indicate that while offshoring has …
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, while trade in semi-finished products is important for the chemicals industry. As the offshoring decisions are made at … to characteristics of the host and the destination country and the characteristics of the offshoring firms. Section 5 … therefore focuses on the offshoring decisions at the company level it analyses the motives and determinants of company …
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In this paper we study the effects of high-tech capital, foreign direct investment flows and outsourcing on demand for … outsourcing we further distinguish the effects of trade and outsourcing on relative wages by different groups of partner countries …. This allows to study the effects of 'inward' outsourcing and foreign direct investment flows to Central and Eastern …
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FDI inflows reached a new high in 2007 in the CEEC region as a whole. Within the region, the shift of new investments to the East continued a decline or at best stagnation was recorded in the NMS, modest growth in Southeast Europe, and a boom in the CIS. For the first time, the four European CIS...
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