| dc.creator |
Görg, Holger |
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| dc.creator |
Strobl, Eric |
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| dc.date |
2002 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-16T06:06:03Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-10-16T06:06:03Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2013-10-16 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2890 |
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| dc.identifier |
ppn:359456596 |
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| dc.identifier |
ppn:359456596 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/2890 |
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| dc.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. |
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| dc.language |
eng |
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| dc.publisher |
Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Bonn |
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| dc.relation |
IZA Discussion paper series 596 |
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| dc.rights |
http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen |
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| dc.subject |
F14 |
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| dc.subject |
O33 |
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| dc.subject |
J31 |
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| dc.subject |
ddc:330 |
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| dc.subject |
wage inequality |
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| dc.subject |
trade liberalisation |
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| dc.subject |
skill-biased technological change |
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| dc.subject |
Lohnstruktur |
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| dc.subject |
Qualifikation |
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| dc.subject |
Außenhandelsliberalisierung |
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| dc.subject |
Technologietransfer |
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| dc.subject |
Technischer Fortschritt |
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| dc.subject |
Schätzung |
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| dc.subject |
Ghana |
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| dc.title |
Relative wages, openness and skill-biased technological change |
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| dc.type |
doc-type:workingPaper |
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