Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71686 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7320
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper explores the causes of skill-based employment differentials within the Turkish manufacturing sector over the period 1980-2001. 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 two-equation model that depicts the employment trends for skilled and unskilled workers separately. In particular, the System Generalized Method of Moments (GMM-SYS) procedure is applied to a panel dataset comprised of 17,462 firms. Our results confirm the theoretical expectation that developing countries face the phenomena of skill-biased technological change and skill-enhancing technology import, both leading to increasing the employment gap between skilled and unskilled workers. In particular, strong evidence of a relative skill bias emerges: both domestic and imported technologies increase the demand for skilled labor 5 to 6 times more than the corresponding demand for the unskilled labor. Finally, learning by export also appears to have a skill biased impact, but to a lesser extent.
Subjects: 
skill-biased technological change
technology transfer
panel data
GMM-SYS
JEL: 
F16
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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