Trade and Competitiveness at a Glance

A new OECD publication

Andreas Lindner 28 March 2011Task Force meeting on International Merchandise Trade, Luxembourg

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• Foreword• Table of contents• Readers guideText, tables and graphs:• Special feature: Crisis impact on

trade and competitiveness– Short analysis of trade collapse and

recovery thereafter

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• Trade at a Glance– The big picture: world trade levels,

structure and trends, and main contributors

– World export market shares– Trade in services world matrix– Trade with regions of the world– Geographical distribution of export shares– Geographical concentration (Herfindahl

Index) 3

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• Import penetration• Revealed comparative advantage• Import content of exports• Trade in value added• ICT trade• Trade in environmental goods• International supply of services (incl.

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• Price/volume split• Intra-firm trade• Trade by enterprise characteristics

– TEC by size classes– TEC traders compared to all enterprises– TEC by top enterprises– TEC by number of partner countries– TEC by commodity groups (CPC)

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• Competitiveness at a Glance– Output, employment and productivity– Real effective exchange rates

• Relative Consumer Price Indices• Relative Unit Labour Costs

– Productivity levels and growth– Nominal and Unit Labour Costs– Unit labour costs by economic activity– Labour compensation per unit labour input

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• Labour productivity per unit labour input

• Total labour costs and real output• Exchange rates adjusted ULC• Impact of labour productivity on unit

labour costs• Unit labour cost, labour productivity

and labour compensation per unit of labour input

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Methodological Annex• Definitions, methodologies and basic conventions• Signs, abbreviations and acronyms• Glossary of statistical terms used• StatLinks and Online data availability• Accessing OECD publications• Further reading• Annex 1: OECD system of Trade statistics and related

Indicators• Annex 2: OECD system of Unit Labour Costs and

related Indicators• Annex 3: OECD databases relevant to Productivity

Analysis

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