Trade in services: IT and task content

In this paper we investigate the determinants of the dramatic increase in services tradability focusing on the extensive margin of the phenomenon. We use balance sheet and firm-level service trade information over the period 1995-2005 provided by the National Bank of Belgium and we merge it with information on the evolution of information technology use and tasks performed by workers from the qualification and career survey provided by the BIBB-IAB. We show that technological change, measured either by the more intensive use of information technologies or by changes in the task content of jobs... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Ariu, Andrea
Mion, Giordano
Dokumenttyp: doc-type:workingPaper
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Verlag/Hrsg.: Brussels: National Bank of Belgium
Schlagwörter: ddc:330 / F14 / F16 / O33 / L80 / trade in services / extensive margin / technological change / task content / Dienstleistungshandel / Technischer Fortschritt / Informationstechnik / Handelsliberalisierung / Belgien
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26543476
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Link(s) : http://hdl.handle.net/10419/144412