This report draws on individual-level and firm-level data to better understand the relationships between services trade and labour market outcomes. It seeks to shed light on how firms benefit from the rise in services trade, which groups of workers are affected the most, how employment and wages...

The importance of services trade and "servicification" of economic activity has grown in countries overtime. However, regulatory and administrative barriers to the movement of service suppliers have meant that "Mode 4" accounted for only 2.1% of total services trade in 2005 and 2.9% in 2017....