this outsourcing behavior both exacerbates lost quota rents and leads to an increased concentration of H-1B workers among a … small number of firms. Simple numerical exercises suggest that the H-1B lottery and outsourcing result in an annual economic …

This paper studies how outsourcing of services activities affects TFP at the firm level. Using the universe of buyer …-supplier relationships in Belgium, we first document several new empirical facts about how firms engage in the outsourcing of supporting … goes a long way to explaining both the aggregate trend and the firmlevel fluctuations in services outsourcing growth. Based …

This paper studies how outsourcing of services activities affects TFP at the firm level. Using the universe of buyer …-supplier relationships in Belgium, we first document several new empirical facts about how firms engage in the outsourcing of supporting … goes a long way to explaining both the aggregate trend and the firmlevel fluctuations in services outsourcing growth. Based …