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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/2890| Title: | Relative wages, openness and skill-biased technological change |
| Keywords: | F14 O33 J31 ddc:330 wage inequality trade liberalisation skill-biased technological change Lohnstruktur Qualifikation Außenhandelsliberalisierung Technologietransfer Technischer Fortschritt Schätzung Ghana |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
| Publisher: | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Bonn |
| Description: | 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. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/2890 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2890 ppn:359456596 ppn:359456596 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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