Trade, technology and skills: Evidence from Turkish microdata

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2011-12-01

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MESCHİ, Elena
Taymaz, Erol
VİVARELLİ, Marco

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In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and the relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm-level data over the period 1980-2001. In a dynamic panel data setting, using a unique database comprising data from 17,462 firms, we estimate an augmented cost share equation whereby the wage bill share of skilled workers in a given firm is related to international exposure and technology adoption.

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Globalisation, Technology transfer, Skills, Panel data, GMM-SYS

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/45958

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LABOUR ECONOMICS

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2011.07.001

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E. MESCHİ, E. Taymaz, and M. VİVARELLİ, “Trade, technology and skills: Evidence from Turkish microdata,” LABOUR ECONOMICS, pp. 0–0, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/45958.