Arbeitspapier
Relative wages, openness and skill-biased technological change
Standard neo-classical trade theory predicts that trade liberalisation should cause a fall in wage inequality in developing countries through a decrease in the relative demand for skilled labour. Recent studies of a number of developing countries, however, find evidence to the contrary. Using a panel of manufacturing firms in the 1990s we investigate whether skillbiased technological change induced through imports of technology-intensive capital goods or export activity may provide an explanation for the increase in relative wages of skilled workers in Ghana. Estimates of a skilled worker relative demand equation based on a translog cost function show that changes in technology through a greater inflow of foreign machinery is found to be indeed consistent with skill-biased technological change in Ghana.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 596
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Empirical Studies of Trade
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- Subject
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trade liberalisation
skill-biased technological change
wage inequality
Lohnstruktur
Qualifikation
Außenhandelsliberalisierung
Technologietransfer
Technischer Fortschritt
Schätzung
Ghana
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Görg, Holger
Strobl, Eric
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2002
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Görg, Holger
- Strobl, Eric
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2002
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