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The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet A. - 2014

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises...

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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys

Almeida, Rita - 2007

This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological...

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Openness and Technological Innovation in East Asia : Have They Increased the Demand for Skills?

Almeida, Rita - 2009

This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. We explore a unique firm level data set across eight countries. Our results strongly support the idea that greater openness and technology...

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Globalization and Employment : Imported Skill Biased Technological Change in Developing Countries

Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - 2021

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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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice - 2012

) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry …

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How ICT Investment and Energy Use Influence the Productivity of Korean Industries

Khayyat, Nabaz T. - 2015

investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor … productivity growth in 30 industrial sectors. Describing industry-specific productivity levels is important for policymakers when … the allocation of public investment and support is limited.The results presented herein show that ICT/non-ICT capital …

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Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency : The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey

Findik, Derya - 2015

This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high … technology firms, the effect of the software investment is smaller than the effect of research and development personnel …

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Changes in China's Wage Structure

Ge, Suqin - 2012

Using a national sample of Urban Household Surveys, we document several profound changes in China's wage structure during a period of rapid economic growth. Between 1992 and 2007, the average real wage increased by 202 percent, accompanied by a sharp rise in wage inequality. Decomposition...

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Technology and the Demand for Skill : An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences

Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John; Lane, Julia; … - 2021

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...

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R&D, Embodied Technological Change and Employment : Evidence from Italian Microdata

Barbieri, Laura - 2016

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and embodied technological change (ETC). We use a novel panel dataset covering 265 innovative Italian firms over the period 1998-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect...

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