Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/182397 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 254
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht
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 labor 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 globalized 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, labor-saving technological progress and skill-enhancing trade.
Subjects: 
catching-up
structural change
globalization
capabilities
technological transfer
JEL: 
O14
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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