Economist: Owing to global economic

Answer choices

1. A

   No Distinction5% picked this

   International trade agreements have usually covered both trade in manufactured goods and

   This makes manufacturing / services seem similar in relation to international trade. We need a reason why manufacturing was more associated with international trade, and why a service economy is less associated.

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2. B

   No Distinction2% picked this

   Employment in the service sector tends to require as many specialized skills as does

   Not only does this have no clear tie-in to international trade, but again this makes manufacturing / services seem similar. We're looking for a distinction between them, so that we can explain why the decline of manufacturing and rise of service jobs went along with less and less international trade.

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3. C

   Correct81% picked this

   Because services are usually delivered in person, markets for services tend

   Why this is right

   This provides a distinction between manufacturing and service jobs. It provides a reason why service jobs would be connected to less international trade, since it's saying that service jobs skew local. Service jobs are usually done in person, to the market for them (the people paying for service work) are usually local to the people performing the service. If you have a service job (travel agent / hostess / barista / etc.), you're probably performing that job for people in your country, not in some other country. Meanwhile, if you manufacture coffee grinders, you could have customers all over the world. Thus, as the economy has become less about manufacturing and more about services, there has been less and less international trade. There aren't foreign countries who want to hire us as their personal trainers, gardeners, or housekeepers.

   Skill tested: Paradox · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

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4. D

   Explains Background7% picked this

   Many manufacturing jobs have been rendered obsolete by advances in

   This helps to provide context for why the economy is decreasingly manufacturing, but we weren't trying to explain why manufacturing was on the decline. We need to explain why a decline in manufacturing (and surge of service jobs) translates into less international trade. This answer doesn't connect to international trade at all.

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5. E

   Deepens Paradox5% picked this

   Some services can be procured less expensively from providers in other countries than from providers

   This actually discusses times in which there would be international trade, for service jobs. The idea of procuring service jobs from some other country rather than from your own country is connecting service jobs to international trade. But we wanted an answer that helps us see why service jobs are connected to less international trade.

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