Trade Policy, Inclusiveness and the Rise of the Service Economy
25-26 April 2018
Trade,
Workshops | Tags:
Inclusiveness,
Services Trade
The Council on Economic Policies, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization are organizing a workshop on 25-26 April, 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland, on policy relevant aspects of the links between trade in services and inclusive growth.
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How’s Life?
Alexander Barkawi | 22 January 2018
Fiscal,
Monetary,
Trade,
Publications | Tags:
Environment,
Inequality
In November, the OECD published its most recent report on a short but fundamental question: How’s Life? Income is an important, but not the only factor in determining the answer. The OECD reflects this by going beyond the focus on GDP, that has for long
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Services Policy Reform and Manufacturing Employment: Evidence from Transition Economies
Matteo Fiorini,
Bernard Hoekman and
Clement Malgouyres | 13 September 2017
Trade,
Research Papers | Tags:
Employment,
Services Trade
Policy reforms targeting the services sectors are a neglected dimension of the process of structural transformation and economic development. The effects of such reforms on employment across industries as a function of their use of services as intermediate inputs are theoretically ambiguous and remain largely
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Trade Policy 2020
27 October 2017
Conferences,
Trade | Tags:
Agricultural Trade,
Investment Agreements,
Services Trade
Global trade is at a crossroads. Liberal tenets of past decades are increasingly being challenged by critical voices, casting doubts over the benefits of further international trade liberalization. The belief in global trade as a driver for economic wellbeing has taken a serious hit -
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Foreign Trade Barriers and Jobs in Global Supply Chains
Stefan Kühn and
Christian Viegelahn | 27 June 2017
Trade,
Research Papers | Tags:
Employment,
Services Trade
This paper studies the impact of foreign barriers to goods and services trade on domestic jobs that are directly or indirectly related to affected trade flows.
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The Impact of Service and Goods Offshoring on Employment: Firm-Level Evidence
Ilke Van Beveren,
Stijn Vanormelingen and
Carmine Ornaghi | 29 May 2017
Trade,
Research Papers | Tags:
Employment,
Services Trade
Advances in communication technology have led to a remarkable increase in the tradability of services, resulting in a substantial increase in offshoring of services over the last two decades. Research investigating how this surge in service offshoring affects employment, has been largely hampered by the
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The Effects of Exporting on Labour Productivity: Evidence from German Firms
Johannes Schwarzer | 24 March 2017
Trade,
Research Papers | Tags:
Employment,
Productivity,
Services Trade
We revisit the "self-selection vs. learning-by-exporting (LBE)" debate with new evidence on a large panel of German firms of all economic sectors up to the 3-digit NACE level, between 1993-2014, and shed new light on the channels that foster export-induced productivity gains.
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Trade and Jobs in Europe: The Role of Mode 5 Services Exports
José M. Rueda-Cantuche,
Lucian Cernat and
Nuno Sousa | 16 March 2017
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
Employment,
Services Trade
From 1995 to 2011, the EU employment supported by exports of goods and services to the rest of the world grew by 67%, reaching a total of 31 million jobs. In a recent research piece we set out to bring to light some key insights
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CGE Models vs Educated Guesswork: The Case of the EU-Korea FTA
Johannes Schwarzer | 17 January 2017
Trade,
Blog | Tags:
CETA,
TPP,
TTIP
A September 2016 research note by the European Commission on the effects of the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement has recently been picked up in social media by various commentators. Amid rising skepticism around trade agreements and a tendency to question established wisdom, its 2-fold message is balm for the
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Impact of Linking into Global Value Chains on Indian Employment
Karishma Banga | 11 January 2017
Trade,
Research Papers | Tags:
Employment,
Global Value Chains,
Services Trade
This study examines the industry-level impact of linking into GVCs for the Indian labour market, spanning the period 1995-2011. The analysis includes manufacturing, services, agriculture and allied activities.
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