goods, and offers an explanation for core features of the GATT. Tariffs play almost no role in services markets, however … as the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). We develop a model through which key features of GATS … understood. And we use this model to suggest that there may also be a middle ground for services trade liberalization between the …

This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation … different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with … subsistence agriculture towards salaried work in industry and services -- child penalties take over as the dominant driver of …

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 …

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 …

surge), Professional, Scientific and Technical Services, Truck Transportation, and Accommodation and Food Services. Given … that existing small businesses in Retail Trade and Accommodation and Food Services have suffered especially large declines …