workers are affected the most, how employment and wages adjust to increased services trade, and the impact of policy settings … quantitatively small. Looking at the distributional impact, there is mixed evidence for a skill bias in wages related to increased … exert downward pressure on the wages of women compared to the ones of men. …

employment and wages in the United Kingdom. It finds that firms can benefit from services trade, through increased employment …, production and productivity. On average, workers’ wages are also positively impacted by increased services trade. The findings … suggest that services imports enhance female wages more than those of males, thereby contributing to narrow the gender wage …