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A Sorted Tale of Globalization : White Collar Jobs and the Rise of Service Offshoring

Liu, Runjuan - 2013

We study how the rise of trade in services with China and India has impacted U.S. labour markets. The topic has two understudied aspects: it deals with service trade (most studies deal with manufacturing trade) and it examines the historical first of U.S. workers competing with educated but...

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Global Service Efficiency and the Role of Special and Differential Based Negotiation

Yao, Daqing - 2016

This paper argues that the pursuit of special and differential treatments (SDT) by developing countries has hampered the liberalization of global service trade, which is one of the causes of the only slowing improving of service efficiency globally. We use value added per worker as a proxy of...

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Services in the Domestic Economy and in World Transactions

Kravis, Irving B. - 2021

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....

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Much Ado About Nothing : American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India

Liu, Runjuan - 2013

We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider the reverse flow or 'inshoring' which is the sale of services produced in the United States to unaffiliated buyers in China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for...

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The Division and Size of Gains from Liberalization of Service Networks

Bhattarai, Keshab; Whalley, John - 2022

This paper emphasizes the different nature of cross border liberalization in network related services, such as telecoms, compared to liberalization in goods. In the presence of network externalities, it argues that if two disjoint country service networks involving a small and large country are...

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Service Imports, Workforce Composition, and Firm Performance : Evidence from Finnish Microdata

Ariu, Andrea; Hakkala, Katariina Nilsson; Jensen, J. … - 2022

This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, work- force composition, and firm characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use...

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Foreign Affiliate Sales and Trade in Both Goods and Services

Chunding, Li - 2010

(1994) and the GATS there is an incompatibility between measures of world trade in goods and services. Measures of goods … trade reflecting GATT (1994) are restricted to trade that crosses borders. Service trade, however, under GATS mode 3 … them is the present mixed GATT and GATS basis; another is trade including foreign affiliate sales, and a final one excludes …

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The Incidence of Geography on Canada's Services Trade

Anderson, James E. - 2011

We estimate geographic barriers to export trade in nine service categories for Canada's provinces from 1997 to 2007 using the structural gravity model. Constructed Home, Domestic and Foreign Bias indexes (the last two new) capture the direct plus indirect effect of services trade costs on...

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The WTO Government Procurement Agreement and its Impacts on Trade

Chen, Hejing - 2011

This paper assesses the impacts of the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) on trade in both goods and services among members using a gravity model applied to a panel dataset covering 20 OECD countries over the period 1996-2008 for trade in goods and 1999-2008 for trade in services. The...

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Pollution and International Trade in Services

Levinson, Arik - 2014

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...

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