How Do Restrictions on High-Skilled Immigration Affect Offshoring? Evidence from the H-1B Program

I would like to thank Lee Branstetter, Brian Kovak, J. Bradford Jensen, Giovanni Peri, Ina Ganguli, Elena Kulchina, Erica Fuchs, and seminar participants at the NBER Summer Institute, BYU Winter Conference, ASSA, NBER Productivity Seminar, UCLA, IESE, USC, Bocconi, Wharton, Duke, MIT, Federal Reserve Board, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, and HBS. I also gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Mack Institute for Innovation Management. The statistical analysis of firm-level data on U.S. multinational companies was conducted at the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), United States Department of Commerce under arrangements that maintain legal confidentiality requirements. I thank Bill Zeile, Jim Fetzer, and Ray Mataloni for helpful discussions on the BEA data. All errors and omissions remain my own responsibility. The views expressed are those of the author and do not reflect official positions of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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