Arbeitspapier

Globalization, technology transfer, and skill accumulation in low-income countries

Globalization has drastically improved access of technological latecomers to advanced technologies and provides a unique opportunity for low-income countries to raise per capita income. This paper shows that low-income countries as a group have in fact substantially increased the GDP-ratio of technology imports over the past few years, but that there are large cross-country discrepancies in technology upgrading within this group. General-purpose technology continues to constitute the bulk of technology imports, while sector-specific technology used for labour-intensive activities has gained in importance. Improved access to technology imports appears not to have improved labour productivity and the demand for skilled labour in many low-income countries. To raise the benefits reaped from globalization, governments might need to make additional efforts towards a simultaneous increase in technology imports and the skill level of the domestic labour force.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Discussion Paper ; No. 2001/39

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Thema
technology transfer
labour productivity
low-income countries
Globalisierung
Technologietransfer
Facharbeiter
Theorie
Low-Income Countries

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Mayer, Jörg
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2001

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Mayer, Jörg
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2001

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