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Comparative Advantage and Trade Performance: Policy Implications
Kowalski, Przemyslaw - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2011
), financial development, energy supply, business climate, labour market institutions as well as import tariff policy. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319069
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Connecting Local Producers in Developing Countries to Regional and Global Value Chains: Update
Bamber, Penny; Fernandez-Stark, Karina; Gereffi, Gary; … - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2014
This report analyzes the specific factors that affect the competitiveness of developing countries in global value chains (GVCs), and how these factors differ across four major economic sectors: agriculture, extractive industries, manufacturing and offshore services. Although integration into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277114
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The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Jobs and Growth: Technical Note
Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de …; … - 2011
. Reducing tariffs and non-tariff barriers can help in the short run where the economic crisis has led to significant involuntary …, using novel approaches to assess the effects of reducing trade costs related to non-tariff measures, and to assess the … that the G20 economies could take from the potential effects of global tariff liberalisation efforts in which all countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828608
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Trade, employment and structural change : the Australian experience
Thompson, Greg; Murray, Tim; Jomini, Patrick - 2012
International trade produces income gains across the world by facilitating an efficient allocation of production among trading countries. However, increased trade exposure also creates some challenges, and there are adjustment costs associated with changing trade patterns. Effective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009684790
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Outsourcing in East Asia and its impact on the Japanese and Korean Labour Markets
Ahn, Sanghoon - 2008
This study describes the changing patterns of intermediate goods trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in East Asia and investigates the impacts of international outsourcing on the Japanese and the Korean labour markets. The main findings of the paper are as follows. First, intra-regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445032
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Trade and Labour Market Adjustments
Hill, Samuel - 2008
This study describes developments in international trade and OECD labour markets and analyses possible linkages between them. It depicts recent developments in offshoring, trade in tasks and the integration of large emerging economies into the world market. The labour market in major OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446736
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Trade and Labour Market Adjustment
Stone, Susan; Sourdin, Patricia; Legendre, Clarisse - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013
While it is widely accepted that there are adjustment costs associated with the reallocation of resources in response to freer trade, in most models these costs are assumed to be very small. However, more recent evidence is casting doubt on this assumption. This paper develops a unique dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277094
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Exports and Employment in China, Indonesia, Japan and Korea
Kiyota, Kozo - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2014
This paper examines the effects of exports on employment in China, Indonesia, Japan and Korea. It draws on input-output data for the period from 1995 to 2009 to estimate the effects on each industry's employment (i.e. direct effects) and on other industries' employment through intra-industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277099
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Global Production Networks and Employment: A Developing Country Perspective
Shepherd, Ben; Stone, Susan - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013
This paper provides evidence of the links between Global Value Chains (GVCs) and labour market outcomes, focusing on developing economies. The literature generally indicates that firms with international linkages—which we use here as a proxy for GVC involvement—tend to employ more workers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277108
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Different Partners, Different Patterns: Trade and Labour Market Dynamics in Brazil's Post-Liberalisation Period
Kupfer, David; Castilho, Marta; Dweck, Esther; Nicoll, … - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013
This paper seeks to evaluate to what extent the greater external exposure of the Brazilian economy in the past decade has contributed to the evolution of employment in the country. This investigation has been undertaken in two ways. First, the total employment variation was decomposed in order...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277121