produced with services, services are produced with goods, some manufacturing firms are factory-less, and companies tend to sell … solutions to customers by bundling goods with services. This business reality has important implications for trade and industry … statistical challenges in assessing the contribution of manufacturing and services to output, value added, or trade. It then …

indirect effects of the rise of industrial robots and productivity via international value chains on various industrial … indicators, including employment and real value added. The paper thereby adds to the existing empirical work on the relationship … between technological change, employment and industrial growth by adding data on industrial robots while controlling for other …

This paper analyses the role of services in international trade through the lens of global value chains (GVCs …). Services account for more than 70% of world GDP but only for around 20% of world trade in balance of payments terms. In value … added terms, accounting for services embodied in exported goods, services account for 40% of world trade. However, the …

productivity performance with good fiscal and external balance results. However, the benefits of this development strategy have … industries, promote the diversification of the economy and, in particular, strengthen the role of the services sector. This …

have also contributed to increasing productivity and long-term growth. We explore empirically the impact of GVC … participation on productivity in Estonia using firm-level data from 2000 to 2016. We find that higher GVC participation at the … industry level significantly boosts productivity at both the industry and the firm level. Frontier firms, large firms, and …

productivity performance of firms from a catching-up country (Poland) and a leader economy (Germany). Domestic owned firms are less …, the foreign ownership productivity premium decreases, leading to productivity catching up between foreign and domestic … firms' productivity performance is more stable along the GVC distribution. …