The labor market consequences of appropriate technology

Arbeitspapier

Developing countries rely on technology created by developed countries. This paper demonstrates that such reliance increases wage inequality but leads to greater production in developing countries. I study a Brazilian innovation program that taxed the leasing of international technology to subsidize national innovation. I show that the program led firms to replace technology licensed from developed countries with in-house innovations, which led to a decline in both employment and the share of high-skilled workers. Using a model of directed technological change and technology transfer, I find that increasing the share of firms that patent in Brazil by 1 p.p. decreases the skilled wage premium by 0.02% and production by 0.2%.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. WP 2022-53

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes ; Technological Change: Government Policy
• Thema: appropriate technology ; directed technological change ; innovation

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): De Souza, Gustavo
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• (wo): Chicago, IL
• (wann): 2022

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.21033/wp-2022-53
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/272812
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ