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The Endogenous Skill Bias of Technical Change and Inequality in Developing Countries
Behar, Alberto - 2013
This paper draws on existing empirical literature and an original theoretical model to argue that globalization and skill supply affect the extent to which technology adoption in developing countries favors skilled workers. Developing countries are experiencing technical change that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395381
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Quality upgrading and export performance in the Asian growth miracle
Papageorgiou, Chris; Perez-Sebastian, Fidel; Spatafora, … - 2019
We explore the contribution of product-quality upgrading to the export performance of six fast-growing Asian economies … changes in these countries' sectoral export shares during 1970-2010. We build a multisector Ricardian trade model which allows … for changes in product quality, and calibrate it to generate predictions about export volumes. Unlike previous literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154895
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Growth, Trade, and Deindustrialization
Ramaswamy, Ramana - 1998
This paper shows that deindustrialization is explained primarily by trends internal to the advanced economies. These include the combined effects on manufacturing employment of a relatively faster growth of productivity in manufacturing, the associated relative price changes, and shifts in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400831
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The Dynamics of Product Quality and International Competitiveness
Mody, Ashoka - 2007
entered the European Union in May 2004 have achieved a decade of impressive export growth, expanding significantly their … shares of world markets. Does this mean that the real exchange rate is irrelevant? If not, what other factors compensated for … continue to power export growth? This paper places in international context the achievements of the CEE-8 and helps more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400905
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Sizing up the effects of technological decoupling
Cerdeiro, Diego A.; Eugster, Johannes; Mano, Rui; Muir, Dirk - 2021
This paper proposes channels through which technological decoupling can affect global growth, and embeds these different layers in a global dynamic macroeconomic model. Multiple scenarios are considered that differ along two dimensions: (i) the coalition of countries (hubs) that initiate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518889
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Does Trade and Technology Transmission Facilitate Inequality Convergence? : An inquiry Into the Role of Technology in Reducing the Poverty of Nations
Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2007
Based on stylized evidence showing variation of the Gini coefficient of income inequality across skill cohorts and on the rapid rise in trade in technology-intensive goods, the ripple effects of technology transmission and income inequality are explored in a global Computable General Equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400228
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Is technology widening the gender gap? : automation and the future of female employment
Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; Khalid, Salma - 2019
Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we relate data on task composition at work to occupation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021777
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Export Quality in Developing Countries
Henn, Christian - 2013
This paper develops new, far more extensive estimates of export quality, covering 178 countries and hundreds of … quality growth rates. Within any given product line, quality converges both conditionally and unconditionally to the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395210
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Inequality in the Spanish labor market during the COVID-19 crisis
Lariau, Ana; Liu, Lucy Qian - 2022
We analyze the differential impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the Spanish labor market across population groups, as well as its implications for income inequality. The main finding is that young, less educated, and low skilled workers, as well as women are the most affected by the COVID-19 shock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170558
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North-South RandD Spillovers
Helpman, Elhanan - 1994
We examine the extent to which developing countries that do little, if any, research and development themselves benefit from R&D that is performed in the industrial countries. By trading with an industrial country that has a large “stock of knowledge” from its cumulative R&D activities, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398245