Arbeitspapier
Relative wages, openness and skill-biased technology change in Ghana
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 skill-biased 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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CREDIT Research Paper ; No. 01/18
Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Technischer Fortschritt
Qualifikation
Lohnstruktur
Ghana
Qualifikation
Lohnstruktur
Ghana
Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Görg, Holger
Strobl, Eric
Strobl, Eric
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The University of Nottingham, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT)
(wo)
Nottingham
(wann)
2001
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Görg, Holger
- Strobl, Eric
- The University of Nottingham, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT)
Entstanden
- 2001
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