What Explains Skill Upgrading in Less Developed Countries

By Nina Pavcnik. 2003

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Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of Economic Literature (2014, background): “By contrast, investigating the causes of skill upgrading in Chilean plants during the 1980s, Nina Pavcnik (2003) failed to find a significant relationship between measures of adopting foreign technology and the relative demand for skilled workers when she controlled for unobserved plant heterogeneit”
Trade reforms and wage inequality in Colombia (2004, unknown): “Evidence from several countries seems to suggest that the latter has had important effects on the wage distribution in the last two decades (see Berman, Machin, and Bound (1998), Pavcnik (2003)).”
Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature (2011, background): “In contrast, Pavcnik (2003) investigate the causes of skill upgrading in Chilean plants during the 1980s and fails to find a significant relationship between measures of adoption of foreign technology and the relative demand for skilled workers when controlling for unobserved plant heterogeneity.”
Trade, technology and skills: evidence from Turkish microdata (2011, background): “15 As emphasised by Pavcnik (2003), the translog cost function is very appealing because it provides a second-order approximation to any cost function and does not impose any restrictions on the substitutability of the various inputs.”
Trade, Wages and the Political Economy of Trade Protection: Evidence from the Colombian Trade Reforms (2005, background): “Indeed, in a related 26 paper (Goldberg and Pavcnik (2003), p. 21), we find, that while the share of informal workers increased in Colombia in the aftermath of the trade reforms, the entire increase is accounted for by within-industry changes from the formal to the informal sector, rather than…”
Trade, Inequality, and Poverty: What Do We Know? (2004, background): “For example, in Vietnam in 1993, only 19 percent of adults ages 20-64 work for wages and only 7 percent work in manufacturing (Edmonds and Pavcnik (2003)).”
Trade and Employment: Stylized Facts and Research Findings (2005, unknown): “In a related paper, Goldberg and Pavcnik (2003) find that while the share of informal workers increased in Colombia in the aftermath of the trade reforms, the entire increase is accounted for by within-industry changes from the formal to the informal sector, rather than between industry shifts of…”
Trade Reforms and Wage Inequiality in Colombia (2003, background): “An emerging concern in many Latin American countries is that trade liberalization has contributed to the rise in the number of informal workers (Stallings and Peres (2000)).”