This paper examines the effects of exports on employment in China, Indonesia, Japan and Korea. It draws on input …, at the aggregate level, the implied employment from exports increased in China, Japan and Korea. Second, at the industry … level, exports and the shares of implied employment from exports increased in machinery-related industries such as Machinery …

the labour content of trade, we estimated the volume of direct employment associated with exports, according to the skill … composition of trade, the jobs created by exports only amounted to about 15% of those created by domestic demand and the export … – exports in particular – to this evolution. The decomposition was carried out using the Input-Output Matrix (IOM) methodology …

This report describes the complex and changing interrelationship between trade, domestic investment and foreign direct … investment (FDI) and provides examples of good practices in trade policymaking that create a healthy investment climate in … developing countries. A two-by-two taxonomy is used to analyse the impact of policies affecting imports and exports in both host …

increase opportunities for trade and those that may be inhibiting imports or promoting exports. Many OECD countries, and an … incentives are both increasing the supply of renewable energy and facilitating trade in associated technologies and renewable … international investment and trade in goods and services related to renewable energy has been rapid, but it has not always been …

with this intermittency problem. Cross-border trade in electricity appears to be one of them since it enables countries to … examination of the European electricity market confirm the importance of cross-border electricity trade in increasing the … operations and exerting downward pressure on wholesale electricity prices. The positive contribution that cross-border trade in …

drives international trade in environmental goods. Many of the measures governments adopt to address issues such as local air … pollution, with important implications for international trade in such equipment. The different indicators of regulatory …-waste management or wastewater treatment. While increased trade in environmental products is not an end in itself, the environmental …

This report examines the different channels through which trade openness (and reforms to achieve it) can affect a … country’s food security. The overall conclusion is that trade openness has a positive net impact on food security, although … of trade protection. The challenge for policymakers is to design flanking policies which enable countries to reap …

to freer trade, in most models these costs are assumed to be very small. However, more recent evidence is casting doubt …, facilitating the comparison of short term labour market impacts from trade across countries. Data are reported at the individual … results are consistent with modern trade theory which posits that an expanding export sector rewards mostly high skilled …