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

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 …

find that clinic violence reduces abortion services in targeted areas. Once travel is taken into account, however, the …

Two central topics in recent rounds of international trade negotiations have been environmental concerns, and services … trade. While each is undoubtedly important, they are unrelated. In this paper I show that the services-environment link is … small, for two reasons. First, services account for only a small fraction of overall pollution. For none of five major air …

-collar services, or do these issues call for an entirely fresh approach? I try to identifying some of the important aspects of this … offshoring of white-collar services to occur …

This study examines two innovative efforts to provide union services to workers with the aid of low cost Internet … information to improve the services they give workers. Combining the two innovations could be a step toward a new quot …;open sourcequot; union form that provides union services at low cost outside of collective bargaining …

World trade in services has recently been a little under $US2 trillion, about a quarter of world trade in goods. That … ratio does not appear to have changed much in the last 50 years. For the US, exports of services have recently been over 40 … services are now increasing more rapidly than exports, but not faster than goods imports.Because measures of service trade are …