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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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The International Monetary Fund and Regulatory Challenges

Truman, Edwin M. - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2009

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) plays a substantial regulatory role in the international monetary and financial system. The IMF has been assigned a formal regulatory role in a limited number of areas such as obligations covering exchange rate policies. The Fund has a broader informal...

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Merry Sisterhood or Guarded Watchfulness? Cooperation Between the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank

Fabricius, Michael - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2007

Since their inception at the end of the Second World War, the sister organizations of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have aimed to consistently speak with one voice vis-à-vis their member governments. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that they often do not speak in...

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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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Intra-Firm Trade and Product Contractibility

Jensen, J. Bradford; Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J. - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2010

This paper examines the determinants of intra-firm trade in US imports using detailed country-product data. We create a new measure of product contractibility based on the degree of intermediation in international trade for the product. We find important roles for the interaction of country and...

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Toward a Sunny Future? Global Integration in the Solar PV Industry

Kirkegaard, Jacob Funk; Hanemann, Thilo; Weischer, Lutz; … - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2010

Policymakers seem to face a trade-off when designing national trade and investment policies related to clean energy sectors. They have pledged to address climate change and accelerate the large-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies, which would benefit from increased global...

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