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 …

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

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

We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … outsourcing grew at rates experienced during 1996-2005 in business, professional and technical services i.e., in segments where … China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …

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 …

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …

platforms for pet-sitting services. We exploit variation in pre-merger market shares and a difference-in-differences approach to …

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

) by adding newly traded goods and services and that much of this new trade is in intermediates. I provide an extension of …

Two central topics in recent rounds of international trade negotiations have been environmental concerns, and services … trade. While each is undoubtedly important, they are unrelated. In this paper I show that the services-environment link is … small, for two reasons. First, services account for only a small fraction of overall pollution. For none of five major air …