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Globalization, structural change and innovation in emerging economies : the impact on employment and skills

Vivarelli, Marco - 2018

This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...

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Technology, skills, and globalization : explaining international differences in routine and nonroutine work using survey data

Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Hardy, Wojciech; Du, Yang - 2019

-skill occupations. We estimate the determinants of workers' RTI as a function of technology (computer use), globalization …. Globalization (as measured by sector foreign value-added share) increases RTI in poorer countries but reduces RTI in richer … globalization also important. Technology contributes the most to the differences in RTI among workers in high-skilled occupations …

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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013

countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …

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

Conte, Andrea (contributor); Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2007

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...

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Innovation and employment : a survey

Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2007

"According to the "compensation theory", market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour-saving impact of process innovations. In this paper a critique of this approach is proposed through a detailed survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on the subject. The...

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