Imported technology and manufacturing employment in Ethiopia

Getinet Haile, Ilina Srour and Marco Vivarelli ()
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Ilina Srour: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Eurasian Business Review, 2017, vol. 7, issue 1, No 1, 23 pages

Abstract: Abstract There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change over employment in least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization and consequent international technological transfer. Using a panel of 1940 Ethiopian firms over the period 1996–2004 and deploying GMM-SYS estimates, this paper aims to establish the role played by trade, FDI and technology in affecting employment and skills. The results obtained lend support to a labour–augmenting effect. Moreover, the implemented two-equation dynamic framework provides evidence of a skill-bias specific to those enterprises with higher share of foreign ownership and located in the vicinity of the capital city.

Keywords: Employment; Skills; Globalization; FDI; Trade; Technological change; Ethiopia; J21; O33; J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s40821-016-0051-7

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