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Trade in Intermediate Goods and Services

Miroudot, Sébastien; Lanz, Rainer; Ragoussis, Alexandros - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2009

This study analyses trade flows in intermediate goods and services among OECD countries and with their main trading partners. Combining trade data and input-output tables, bilateral trade in intermediate goods and services is estimated according to the industry of origin and the using industry...

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Estimating the Constraints to Agricultural Trade of Developing Countries

Moïsé, Evdokia; Delpeuch, Claire; Sorescu, Silvia; … - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

Agricultural trade is widely considered as an important contributor to developing countries‘ economic growth, poverty alleviation and food security. This report identifies and analyses some of the most important supply-side constraints to developing countries‘ exports of agricultural...

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Offshoring and Directed Technical Change

Acemoglu, Daron; Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

We study the short- and long-run implications of offshoring on innovation, technology adoption, wage and income …-abundant West to a skill-scarce East. Profit maximization determines both the extent of offshoring and technological progress …. offshoring induces technical change with an ambiguous factor bias. When the initial level of offshoring is low, an increase in …

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Trade and Labour Market Adjustments

Hill, Samuel; Lesher, Molly; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2008

them. It depicts recent developments in offshoring, trade in tasks and the integration of large emerging economies into the … labour demand in the importcompeting sectors or activities. Offshoring of services has a relatively strong positive marginal … impact on labour productivity, but the scale of offshoring is still modest. The labour market impact of offshoring is …

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Connecting Local Producers in Developing Countries to Regional and Global Value Chains: Update

Bamber, Penny; Fernandez-Stark, Karina; Gereffi, Gary; … - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2014

This report analyzes the specific factors that affect the competitiveness of developing countries in global value chains (GVCs), and how these factors differ across four major economic sectors: agriculture, extractive industries, manufacturing and offshore services. Although integration into...

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Global Value Chains and Developing Country Employment: A Literature Review

Shepherd, Ben - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

This paper provides a review of the available literature on global value chains (GVCs) and employment markets in developing countries. Due to the difficulty of observing intra-GVC transactions, there is very little direct empirical work on GVCs and labour markets. However, it is possible to...

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