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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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Outsourcing and Offshoring: Pushing the European Model Over the Hill, Rather Than Off the Cliff!

Kirkegaard, Jacob Funk - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2005

Offshoring and offshore outsourcing is increasingly affecting the EU-15, both in the manufacturing and services sectors … limited extent of perhaps up to 2 percent of the workforce as affected. Offshoring and offshore outsourcing, similar to other … offshoring and offshore outsourcing, if they go ahead and implement the EU Lisbon Agenda with respect to labor market reforms and …

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Offshoring, Outsourcing, and Production Relocation—Labor-Market Effects in the OECD Countries and Developing Asia

Kirkegaard, Jacob Funk - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2007

This working paper evaluates the validity of available data on and the extent of the impact of offshoring on service … offshoring on employment in the three regions is found to be limited. Correspondingly, developing Asia is unlikely to experience …

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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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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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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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