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 …

have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This …

I provide new empirical evidence on the direct and indirect impact of services offshoring on local employment and wages …, using a unique dataset on firms in the UK for the period 2000-2015. Exploiting variation in firms' services offshoring … across labour markets, I show positive aggregate local labour employment and wage elasticity to services offshoring …

by using a novel dataset from the Services Survey of the Brazilian Institute of Economics from the Getulio Vargas …

This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand … between labour and non-labour inputs. Similarly, the increasing use of both imported materials and purchased services is …