This study analyzes China's service concessions under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), as well as the service concessions included in the FTAs that China has signed so far, including the CEPA with Hong Kong. The objective is to determine the extent to which the Chinese service...

We document that the employment share of high-skill-intensive services is much lower in China than in countries with similar gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. We build a model of structural change with goods and low- and high-skill-intensive services to account for this observation. We...

This chapter argues that the global information technology (IT) industry has become increasingly modularized through the digitization of information and that this modularization manifests itself in the reorganization and relocation of the IT industry. This chapter has three main points. First,...