This study examines the potential effects of China's "One-Belt One-Road" initiative (OBOR) on trade flows and global … value chain connections. The empirical analysis is based on the augmented gravity model of international trade, which … value chains (domestic and foreign value added in exports and the value contributed by a partner to a reporter's exports …

added embodied in exports (FVA/Exp.) We augment the Mincerian regression with GVC variable and report gender wage … impact of greater trade involvement in comparison to men. There is some education/skill/occupation heterogeneity with workers …

correlated with sectoral growth. At the same time we confirmed the positive role of trade and human capital. The results are …

between trade and wages are addressed through the use of a gravity-based sector-level instrument. We find no evidence …

-manufacturing sectors; and (iv) account for direct and indirect dependence on GVC imports from developing and high-income countries. We … imports of goods and services required in any stage of the production of the final product); (ii) measure the occupational … production links with non-high-income countries. Our counterfactual estimates suggest that the effect for all of Europe is small …