@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp596,
            	author={Görg, Holger and Strobl, Eric},
            	title={Relative Wages, Openness and Skill-Biased Technological Change},
            	year={2002},
	month={Oct},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={596},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp596},
	abstract={Standard neo-classical trade theory predicts that trade liberalisation should cause a fall in
wage inequality in developing countries through a decrease in the relative demand for skilled
labour. Recent studies of a number of developing countries, however, find evidence to the
contrary. Using a panel of manufacturing firms in the 1990s we investigate whether skillbiased
technological change induced through imports of technology-intensive capital goods
or export activity may provide an explanation for the increase in relative wages of skilled
workers in Ghana. Estimates of a skilled worker relative demand equation based on a
translog cost function show that changes in technology through a greater inflow of foreign
machinery is found to be indeed consistent with skill-biased technological change in Ghana.
},
	keywords={wage inequality;trade liberalisation;skill-biased technological change},
            }