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Skill Complementarity in Production Technology : New Empirical Evidence and Implications
Stoyanov, Andrey - 2019
dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867157
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Trade Openness and the Demand for Skills : Evidence from Turkish Microdata
Meschi, Elena F. - 2012
In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm-level data over the period 1980-2001. In a dynamic panel data setting using a unique database of 17,462 firms,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754959
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China's Skill-Biased Imports
Li, Hongbin; Li, Lei; Ma, Hong - 2022
China has witnessed rapid increases in the skill premium over the last few decades. In this paper, we study the short-run effect of capital goods imports on skill premium in China. The surge in capital goods imports, which embody advanced technology, can explain the rising demand for skills in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081004
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The Role of 'Skill Enhancing Trade' in Brazil : Some Evidence from Microdata
Araujo, Bruno - 2009
Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the volumes of exports and imports since the year 2000. Over the same period, the relative demand for skilled labour has increased substantially. To investigate whether these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158679
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317026
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061654
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Technological Change, Firm Heterogeneity and Wage Inequality
Cortes, Guido Matias; Lerche, Adrian; Schönberg, Uta; … - 2023
We argue that skill-biased technological change not only affects wage gaps between skill groups, but also increases wage inequality within skill groups, across workers in different workplaces. Building on a heterogeneous firm framework with labor market frictions, we show that an industry-wide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357939
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Stuck between Surplus and Shortage : Demand for Skills in the Russian Industry
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2011
In order to remain competitive, firms need to keep the quantity and composition of jobs close to the optimal for their given output. Since the beginning of the transition period, Russian industrial firms have been widely reporting that the quantity and composition of hired labor is far from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756317
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Firm Productivity Growth and Skill
Maré, David C. - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011159
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Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity : Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?
Mahy, Benoit - 2015
productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they … find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over- (under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover …, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of …
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