have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This …

A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S …. Government to reduce barriers to international trade in services.The paper distinguishes four different classifications of … economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been …

total economy. Empirically, we emphasize that the growth has been driven by the consumption of services. Rather than being … driven by low-skill jobs, the importance of skill-intensive services has risen, and this has coincided with a period of … market services. The theory is also consistent with a rising level of skill and skill premium, a rising relative price of …

This paper documents and assesses the significance of the policy changes in China that WTO accession implies in 3 key … their entirety as undertaken at signature in 2002. While it would seem that China will have extraordinarily open markets for … these services by 2007 (and for banking, perhaps in the world), the starting point for implementing these policy changes …

replaced turnover taxes with value-added taxes for some service industries in China, while the taxation of manufacturing …

of tertiarization. The boom is not limited to services that are used as inputs to industrial production. Consumer … services have also grown significantly in terms of both value-added share and productivity. The results are robust to different …

services created by immigrants. This effect can attenuate downward pressure from immigrants on non-immigrants' wages, and also … benefit non-immigrants by increasing the variety of local services available. For this reason, immigrants can raise native … workers, and 62% of these jobs are in non-traded services. Immigrants appear to raise local non-tradables sector wages and to …

find that clinic violence reduces abortion services in targeted areas. Once travel is taken into account, however, the …