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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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Outsourcing in East Asia and its impact on the Japanese and Korean Labour Markets

Ahn, Sanghoon; Fukao, Kyoji; Ito, Keiko - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2008

and investigates the impacts of international outsourcing on the Japanese and the Korean labour markets. The main findings … outsourcing and the international fragmentation of production. Third, reflecting the fact that outsourcing to Asia (particularly … manufacturing as a result of outsourcing. For Korea, although the overall effects of outsourcing have been insignificant in Korea …

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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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Mineral Resource Trade in Chile: Contribution to Development and Policy Implications

Korinek, Jane - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

Mineral resources present a formidable source of wealth but a formidable challenge to regulate in order to maximize social welfare from their extraction. Some resource-rich countries, such as Chile, have been successful in developing their economies and managing their revenue streams...

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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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The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Jobs and Growth: Technical Note

Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de …; … - 2011

demand for higher skilled labour, while the offshoring of services is not found to shift jobs abroad. The report presents in …

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The Role of Services for Competitiveness in Manufacturing

Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik; Kim, Yunhee - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

This study analyses the relationships between competitiveness in manufacturing and the quality of key supporting services. Three indicators of competitiveness are considered: the degree of product differentiation, unit prices obtained in export markets and the duration of trade. The density of...

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Economics of Export Restrictions as Applied to Industrial Raw Materials

Fung, K.C.; Korinek, Jane - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

Governments intervene in non-renewable natural resources sectors more than in many others, including through the use of export taxes and quotas. Industrial raw materials sectors are characterized by a number of specificities: production is often geographically concentrated, firms are often large...

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The Impact of Services Trade Liberalisation on Trade in Non-Agricultural Products

Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2008

This study finds that trade in services contributes to a broader services supplier base that supports competitiveness in high-technology and high-value added manufacturing. It is shown that with low, but still significant trade costs in services, large countries have a comparative advantage for...

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The Impact of Pro-Competitive Reforms on Trade in Developing Countries

Miroudot, Sébastien; Pinali, Enrico; Sauter, Nicolas - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2007

This report proposes an analysis of the mutually reinforcing relationship between trade, investment and competition policies and how together they impact trade in developing countries. An index of pro-competitive reforms is provided for 82 countries over the period 2001-2005. The index...

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