Mitigating the Adjustment Costs of International Trade
Johannes Schwarzer,
Clara Brandi,
Uri Dadush,
Peter Draper,
Andreas Freytag,
Miriam Kautz,
Peter Rashish and
Rob Vos | 3 September 2018
External,
Trade | Tags:
Employment The evidence demonstrating that nations gain from trade is overwhelming. However, trade liberalization can cause disruption to firms and workers, and its gains and losses are spread unevenly.
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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,
Working 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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Foreign Trade Barriers and Jobs in Global Supply Chains
Stefan Kühn and
Christian Viegelahn | 27 June 2017
Trade,
Working 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,
Working 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,
Working 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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