Skill Bias magnified: Identifying the role of international technology diffusion

Patrick Schulte

Journal of International Economics, 2021, vol. 129, issue C

Abstract: This paper studies whether innovations underlying skill-biased technical change diffuse internationally and thereby contribute to the increasing skill demand and inequality in other countries. Using a new empirical framework and sectoral data for a panel of 40 emerging and developed countries, 25 industries and the period from 1995 to 2007, the analysis shows that technology diffusion is statistically and economically important in explaining skill-biased technical change. The results hold for both advanced and emerging economies, as well as in several robustness checks.

Keywords: Advanced and emerging economies; Distance; Industry-level data; Input-output linkages; Skill-biased technical change; Technology diffusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 J24 O14 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022199621000192
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:inecon:v:129:y:2021:i:c:s0022199621000192

DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2021.103442

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of International Economics is currently edited by Martin Uribe and Costas Arkolakis

More articles in Journal of International Economics from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().