TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Conte, Andrea
AU  - Vivarelli, Marco
        TI  - Globalization and Employment: Imported Skill Biased Technological Change in Developing Countries
        PY  - 2007/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2797
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2797
        AB  - 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 measure of technology transfer at the sector level from high income countries (HICs), namely those economies which have already experienced the occurrence of skill-biased technological change, to LMICs. GMM techniques are applied to an original panel dataset comprising 28 manufacturing sectors for 23 countries over a decade. Econometric results provide robust evidence of the determinants of widening employment differentials in LMICs. In particular, capital-skill complementarity represents a source of relative skill-bias while SETI provides an absolute skill-bias effect on the employment trends of skilled and unskilled workers witnessed in these countries.
        KW  - world trade analyzer
KW  - general industrial statistics
KW  - skill biased technological change
KW  - capital skill complementarity
KW  - GMM estimation
        ER  -