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No. 145 | 01 Mar 2013 |
Mineral Resource Trade in Chile
Mineral resources present a formidable source of wealth but a formidable challenge to regulate in order to maximize social welfare from their extraction. Some resource-rich countries, such as Chile, have been successful in developing their economies... |
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No. 144 | 04 Mar 2013 |
Trade Facilitation Indicators
This report presents the findings of the OECD indicators for assessing the impact of specific trade facilitation measures on developing countries’ trade. Sixteen trade facilitation indicators (TFIs) have been constructed, corresponding to the main... |
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No. 143 | 07 Feb 2013 |
Trade and Labour Market Adjustment
While it is widely accepted that there are adjustment costs associated with the reallocation of resources in response to freer trade, in most models these costs are assumed to be very small. However, more recent evidence is casting doubt on this... |
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No. 142 | 31 Jan 2013 |
Estimating the Constraints to Agricultural Trade of Developing Countries
Agricultural trade is widely considered as an important contributor to developing countries‘ economic growth, poverty alleviation and food security. This report identifies and analyses some of the most important supply-side constraints to developing... |
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No. 141 | 10 Dec 2012 |
Regulatory Transparency in Multilateral Agreements Controlling Exports of Tropical Timber, E-Waste and Conflict Diamonds
Export restrictions can be problematic if trading partners question either their conformity with international obligations or their possibly unintended negative impacts on others. Regulatory transparency can help. This paper examines how three... |
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No. 140 | 05 Oct 2012 |
Taking Stock of Measures Restricting the Export of Raw Materials
Governments appear increasingly inclined to resort to border and domestic measures that restrict the export of raw materials. For industrial raw materials, the OECD is constructing an Inventory of measures that have been applied since 2009. The... |
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No. 139 | 29 Jun 2012 |
Multilateralising Regionalism: Disciplines on Export Restrictions in Regional Trade Agreements
The proliferation of preferential trade agreements has posed challenges for the multilateral trading system. But regional trade agreements (RTAs) also allow countries to develop and strengthen trade disciplines beyond what is possible at the... |
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No. 138 | 27 Jun 2012 |
The OECD Regulatory Reform Review of Indonesia
This paper focuses on the market openness aspects of regulatory reform in Indonesia to devise recommendations for improving the country’s regulatory processes. These recommendations involve institutionalising independent and objective evaluations of... |
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No. 137 | 29 Mar 2012 |
Trade, Employment and Structural Change
International trade produces income gains across the world by facilitating an efficient allocation of production among trading countries. However, increased trade exposure also creates some challenges, and there are adjustment costs associated with... |
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No. 136 | 22 Mar 2012 |
Trade Effects of Exchange Rates and their Volatility: Chile and New Zealand
Trade deficits and surpluses are sometimes attributed to intentionally low or high exchange rate levels. The impact of exchange rate levels on trade has been much debated but the large body of existing empirical literature does not suggest an... |
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No. 135 | 20 Jan 2012 |
Trade and Innovation
Innovation is critical to creating new sources of growth. Trade is one of the framework conditions that can strengthen innovation in the business sector, as set out in the OECD Innovation Strategy in 2010. This paper broadly sets out three channels... |
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No. 134 | 31 Oct 2011 |
Openness, Wage Gaps and Unions in Chile
This paper examines the relationship between wages and levels of trade and FDI openness in twenty-nine sectors of the Chilean economy. Over the last four decades, this country almost fully liberalized its trade and foreign direct investment, which... |
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No. 133 | 19 Oct 2011 |
Employment and the Political Economy of Trade
The aims of this paper are to review the main schools of thought on the political economy of trade and employment, to review the empirical evidence supporting these schools, and to consider the implications for public policy. Special emphasis is... |
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No. 132 | 19 Oct 2011 |
A Literature Review on Trade and Informal Labour Markets in Developing Countries
This report provides a summary of the literature on the relationship between trade and informality in developing countries, with an emphasis on the BRIICS. While main conclusions of the ILO and WTO (2009) literature review are highlighted, the report... |
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No. 131 | 24 Feb 2012 |
Effects of NAFTA on US Employment and Policy Responses
The signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a contentious event in United States (US) politics, in particular with respect to public views about the possible labour market effects. This paper is structured as follows. First, we... |
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No. 130 | 19 Oct 2011 |
Agricultural Trade and Employment in South Africa
This report provides an overview of policy changes in South African agriculture over the past three decades, and of some of the associated impacts on output, trade patterns and employment. In agriculture, the story is one of widespread substitution... |
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No. 129 | 19 Oct 2011 |
Trade and Occupational Employment in Mexico since NAFTA
We analyze the effects of trade liberalization on Mexican employment at an occupational level for the period from 1992 to 2009, ranking occupations by skill level. We find that the reduction in trade costs associated with Mexico's entry to NAFTA is... |
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No. 128 | 20 Oct 2011 |
Exporting, Employment, and Skill Upgrading
This paper examines the role of exports in skill upgrading in the Korean manufacturing sector during the 1990s utilizing a unique plant-level panel data set. The empirical results indicate the important role of exports on relative employment on... |
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No. 127 | 19 Oct 2011 |
Trade and Employment in Japan
In light of the importance of the relationship between trade and employment in Japan, this paper examines the effects of exports on employment (i.e. the number of workers), working-hours, and total worker-hours (i.e. employment times working-hours).... |
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No. 126 | 19 Oct 2011 |
Trade and Employment in Italy
This paper addresses the relationship between trade, employment and wages in Italy from the perspective of the specific features of its international specialisation pattern. It focuses on several key questions: To what extent has international... |
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Mineral Resource Trade in Chile
Jane Korinek
01 Mar 2013
Mineral resources present a formidable source of wealth but a formidable challenge to regulate in order to maximize social welfare from their extraction. Some resource-rich countries, such as Chile, have been successful in developing their economies...
Trade Facilitation Indicators
Evdokia Moïsé and Silvia Sorescu
04 Mar 2013
This report presents the findings of the OECD indicators for assessing the impact of specific trade facilitation measures on developing countries’ trade. Sixteen trade facilitation indicators (TFIs) have been constructed, corresponding to the main...
Trade and Labour Market Adjustment
Susan Stone, Patricia Sourdin and Clarisse Legendre
07 Feb 2013
While it is widely accepted that there are adjustment costs associated with the reallocation of resources in response to freer trade, in most models these costs are assumed to be very small. However, more recent evidence is casting doubt on this...
Estimating the Constraints to Agricultural Trade of Developing Countries
Evdokia Moïsé, Claire Delpeuch, Silvia Sorescu, Novella Bottini and Arthur Foch
31 Jan 2013
Agricultural trade is widely considered as an important contributor to developing countries‘ economic growth, poverty alleviation and food security. This report identifies and analyses some of the most important supply-side constraints to developing...
Regulatory Transparency in Multilateral Agreements Controlling Exports of Tropical Timber, E-Waste and Conflict Diamonds
OECD
10 Dec 2012
Export restrictions can be problematic if trading partners question either their conformity with international obligations or their possibly unintended negative impacts on others. Regulatory transparency can help. This paper examines how three...
Taking Stock of Measures Restricting the Export of Raw Materials
Barbara Fliess and Tarja Mård
05 Oct 2012
Governments appear increasingly inclined to resort to border and domestic measures that restrict the export of raw materials. For industrial raw materials, the OECD is constructing an Inventory of measures that have been applied since 2009. The...
Multilateralising Regionalism: Disciplines on Export Restrictions in Regional Trade Agreements
Jane Korinek and Jessica Bartos
29 Jun 2012
The proliferation of preferential trade agreements has posed challenges for the multilateral trading system. But regional trade agreements (RTAs) also allow countries to develop and strengthen trade disciplines beyond what is possible at the...
The OECD Regulatory Reform Review of Indonesia
Molly Lesher
27 Jun 2012
This paper focuses on the market openness aspects of regulatory reform in Indonesia to devise recommendations for improving the country’s regulatory processes. These recommendations involve institutionalising independent and objective evaluations of...
Trade, Employment and Structural Change
Greg Thompson, Tim Murray and Patrick Jomini
29 Mar 2012
International trade produces income gains across the world by facilitating an efficient allocation of production among trading countries. However, increased trade exposure also creates some challenges, and there are adjustment costs associated with...
Trade Effects of Exchange Rates and their Volatility: Chile and New Zealand
Marilyne Huchet-Bourdon and Jane Korinek
22 Mar 2012
Trade deficits and surpluses are sometimes attributed to intentionally low or high exchange rate levels. The impact of exchange rate levels on trade has been much debated but the large body of existing empirical literature does not suggest an...
Trade and Innovation
Nobuo Kiriyama
20 Jan 2012
Innovation is critical to creating new sources of growth. Trade is one of the framework conditions that can strengthen innovation in the business sector, as set out in the OECD Innovation Strategy in 2010. This paper broadly sets out three channels...
Openness, Wage Gaps and Unions in Chile
Jorge Friedman, Nanno Mulder, Sebastián Faúndez, Esteban Pérez Caldentey, Carlos Yévenes, Mario Velásquez, Fernando Baizán and Gerhard Reinecke
31 Oct 2011
This paper examines the relationship between wages and levels of trade and FDI openness in twenty-nine sectors of the Chilean economy. Over the last four decades, this country almost fully liberalized its trade and foreign direct investment, which...
Employment and the Political Economy of Trade
Craig VanGrasstek
19 Oct 2011
The aims of this paper are to review the main schools of thought on the political economy of trade and employment, to review the empirical evidence supporting these schools, and to consider the implications for public policy. Special emphasis is...
A Literature Review on Trade and Informal Labour Markets in Developing Countries
Laura Munro
19 Oct 2011
This report provides a summary of the literature on the relationship between trade and informality in developing countries, with an emphasis on the BRIICS. While main conclusions of the ILO and WTO (2009) literature review are highlighted, the report...
Effects of NAFTA on US Employment and Policy Responses
Christopher J. O’Leary, Randall W. Eberts and Brian M. Pittelko
24 Feb 2012
The signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a contentious event in United States (US) politics, in particular with respect to public views about the possible labour market effects. This paper is structured as follows. First, we...
Agricultural Trade and Employment in South Africa
Ron Sandrey, Cecilia Punt, Hans Grinsted Jensen and Nick Vink
19 Oct 2011
This report provides an overview of policy changes in South African agriculture over the past three decades, and of some of the associated impacts on output, trade patterns and employment. In agriculture, the story is one of widespread substitution...
Trade and Occupational Employment in Mexico since NAFTA
Raymundo Miguel Campos-Vázquez and José Antonio Rodríguez-López
19 Oct 2011
We analyze the effects of trade liberalization on Mexican employment at an occupational level for the period from 1992 to 2009, ranking occupations by skill level. We find that the reduction in trade costs associated with Mexico's entry to NAFTA is...
Exporting, Employment, and Skill Upgrading
Chin Hee Hahn and Chang-Gyun Park
20 Oct 2011
This paper examines the role of exports in skill upgrading in the Korean manufacturing sector during the 1990s utilizing a unique plant-level panel data set. The empirical results indicate the important role of exports on relative employment on...
Trade and Employment in Japan
Kozo Kiyota
19 Oct 2011
In light of the importance of the relationship between trade and employment in Japan, this paper examines the effects of exports on employment (i.e. the number of workers), working-hours, and total worker-hours (i.e. employment times working-hours)....
Trade and Employment in Italy
P. Lelio Iapadre
19 Oct 2011
This paper addresses the relationship between trade, employment and wages in Italy from the perspective of the specific features of its international specialisation pattern. It focuses on several key questions: To what extent has international...