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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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Offshoring in Europe—Evidence of a Two-Way Street from Denmark

Jensen, Peter D. Ørberg; Kirkegaard, Jacob Funk; … - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2006

results of offshoring and its impact on jobs, adding new perspectives to the globalization debate. Globalization entails a …-way street. In 2002–05 more jobs were created as a result of offshoring of activities into eastern Denmark from companies outside … Denmark (i.e., inshored to Denmark) than were eliminated due to offshoring from companies in the Danish region. Overall, 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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