Globalization and employment: imported skill biased technological change in developing countries

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This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct measure of technology transfer at the sector level from high income countries (HICs), namely those economies which have already experienced the occurrence of skill-biased technological change, to LMICs. GMM techniques are applied to an original panel dataset comprising 28 manufacturing sectors for 23 countries over a decade. Econometric results provide robust evidence of the determinants of widening employment differentials in LMICs. In particular, capital-skill complementarity represents a source of relative skill-bias while SETI provides an absolute skill-bias effect on the employment trends of skilled and unskilled workers witnessed in these countries.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 2797

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: Technologietransfer ; Qualifikation ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Komplementärgut ; Kapital ; Sektorale Beschäftigungsstruktur ; Globalisierung ; Schwellenländer ; Low-Income Countries

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Conte, Andrea ; Vivarelli, Marco
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/34419
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-20080401334
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET