Changing Trade Pattern, ICT, and Employment: Evidence Across Countries

Manish Sharma () and Anwesha Aditya ()
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Anwesha Aditya: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India

Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy (JICEP), 2023, vol. 14, issue 02, 1-20

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of export diversification and ICT on aggregate and skill-level employment for a sample of 45 and 33 countries from 1990 to 2019 and 1995 to 2019 for OECD & G20 country groups. GMM dynamic panel estimation results suggest that more product-wise concentrated exports lead to new employment opportunities overall, but not geographically diversified exports. Internet has substitution effects on overall employment whereas mobile is insignificant. A greater product-wise diversified export structure expands low-skill-intensive jobs, but greater geographical diversification expands high-skill-intensive jobs. Internet use promotes high-skill-intensive jobs but displaces low-skilled workers. Mobile is found to expand job opportunities for low-skilled workers.

Keywords: Export diversification; ICT; employment; skill composition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F16 F66 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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