Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Vivarelli, Marco
Author-Email: vivarelli@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, IZA, and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,
	 Milano
Title: Globalisation, structural change and innovation in emerging economies: The 
	 impact on employment and skills
Abstract: This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the 
	 relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in 
	 dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its 
	 attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular 
	 focus devoted to the implications for the domestic labour market.  
	 In the first part of the paper, attention will be focused on structural 
	 change, capability building and technological progress, trying to map - 
	 using different taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature - 
	 the concrete ways through which an emerging country can engage a 
	 successful catching-up, having in mind that developing countries are 
	 deeply involved into globalised markets where domestic innovation has to 
	 be complemented by the role played by international technology transfer. 
	 In the second part of the paper, the focus will be moved to the possible 
	 consequences of this road to catching-up in terms of employment and 
	 skills. In particular, the prescriptions by the conventional trade 
	 theory will be contrasted with a view taking into account technology 
	 transfer, labour-saving technological progress and skill-enhancing 
	 trade.
Classification-JEL: O14, O31, O33
Keywords: catching-up, structural change, globalisation, capabilities, technology
	 transfer, technologic change, innovation, emerging economies
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20181023
Number: 2018-037
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2018/wp2018-037.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2018037