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Author-Name: Meschi, Elena
Author-Email: elena.meschi@unive.it
Author-workplace-name: Ca Foscari University of Venice
Author-Name: Taymaz, Erol
Author-Email: etaymaz@metu.edu.tr
Author-workplace-name: Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Author-Name: Vivarelli, Marco
Author-Email: vivarelli@merit.unu.edu
Author-workplace-name: UNU‐MERIT, Maastricht University, IZA, Bonn and Università
	 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Title: Globalisation, technology and the labour market: A microeconometric analysis for 
	 Turkey 
Abstract: This paper studies the interlinked relationship between globalisation 
	 and technological upgrading in affecting employment and wages of skilled 
	 and unskilled workers in a middle income developing country. It exploits 
	 a unique longitudinal firm-level database that covers all manufacturing 
	 firms in Turkey over the 1992-2001 period. Turkey is taken as an example 
	 of a developing economy that, in that period, had been technologically 
	 advancing and becoming increasingly integrated with the world market.  
	 The empirical analysis is performed at firm level within a dynamic 
	 framework using a model that depicts the employment and wage trends for 
	 skilled and unskilled workers separately. In particular, the System 
	 Generalized Method of Moments (GMM-SYS) procedure is applied to a panel 
	 dataset of about 15,000 firms.  
	 Our results confirm the theoretical expectation that developing 
	 countries face the phenomena of skill-biased technological change and 
	 skill-enhancing trade, both leading to increasing the employment and 
	 wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers. In particular, a strong 
	 evidence of a relative skill bias emerges: both domestic and imported 
	 technologies increase the relative demand for skilled workers more than 
	 the demand for the unskilled. "Learning by exporting" also appears to 
	 have a relative skill- biased impact, while FDI imply an absolute skill 
	 bias.
Keywords: Skill-biased technological change, international technology transfer,
	 GMM-SYS
Classification-JEL: O33
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20160517
Number: 2016-026
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2016/wp2016-026.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2016026