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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Trade and Jobs in Europe: The Role of Mode 5 Services Exports
José M. Rueda-Cantuche,
Lucian Cernat and
Nuno Sousa | 16 March 2017
Blog,
Trade | 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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Impact of Linking into Global Value Chains on Indian Employment
Karishma Banga | 11 January 2017
Trade,
Working 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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