Women and Technological Change in Developing Countries

Imported Skill Biased Technological Change in Developing Countries

This paper discusses the occurrence of skill-enhancing technology import, namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment di¤erentials in low and middle-income countries. 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 ...

Technological Leapfrogging by Developing Countries

Technological Leapfrogging by Developing Countries

Globalization and Employment: Imported Skill Biased Technological Change in Developing Countries

This paper discusses the impact of the international transfer of embodied technological change on the employment evolution of skills in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). A large body of literature has already underlined the occurrence of widening wage and employment differentials between skilled and unskilled workers in high-income countries (HICs) (Katz and Autor, 1999). Suc...

Older Adults in Developing Countries Seem to be Neglected Contacts in Technological Products

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