Trade In Skill-Intensive Services - Through the Pandemic and Accelerating Digitalization

Georgeta Ilie

Global Economic Observer, 2023, vol. 11, issue 1, 73-83

Abstract: This paper examines how trade in services has navigated the pandemic crisis helped by the intensification of digitalization, highlighting the effects of this phenomenon on different categories of services in both developed and developing economies. The research carried out reveals that the pandemic had challenging effects on the trade in services, depending on the intensity of the skills required in their production-supply process and the level of digitalization. Our analysis also underlines that the end of the pandemic marks the beginning of a new era of restoring the service sectors severely affected by the restrictions imposed during this period, as well as their reconfiguration, depending on the continuous intensification of the implementation of new technologies in services. In the last part of this paper, it is highlighted the need to renew trade policy measures adapted to this phase marked by deep post-pandemic transformations in the field of trade in services, to take advantage especially of those related to the latest technologies.

Keywords: : trade in services; skill intensity of services; countries’ development; pandemic; digitalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 I25 J24 L86 O24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-05
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