Openness and Technological Innovation in East Asia: Have They Increased the Demand for Skills?

This paper examines whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. We explore a unique firm level data set across eight countries in the East Asia and Pacific region. Our results strongly support the idea that greater openness and technological innovation have increased the demand for skills, especially in middle-income countries. In particular, while the presence in international markets has been skill enhancing for most middle-income countries, this is not the case for manufacturing firms operating in China and in low-income countries. We interpret this to be supporting the premise that, if international integration in the region continues to intensify and technology continues to be skilled biased, policies aimed at mitigating the skills shortages should produce continual and persistent increase in skills.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Almeida, Rita K.
Format:	Journal Article biblioteca
Language:	EN
Published:	2010
Subjects:	Labor Demand J230, Human Capital, Skills, Occupational Choice, Labor Productivity J240, Economic Development: Human Resources, Human Development, Income Distribution, Migration O150, Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives O310, Technological Change: Choices and Consequences, Diffusion Processes O330,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5569
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