Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Getinet Haile
Author-X-Name-First: Getinet
Author-X-Name-Last: Haile
Author-Email: Getinet.Haile@nottingham.ac.uk
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Nottingham, UK
Author-Name: Ilina Srour
Author-X-Name-First: Ilina
Author-X-Name-Last: Srour
Author-Email: ilina.srour@gmail.com
Author-Workplace-Name: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano and Piacenza
Author-Name: Marco Vivarelli
Author-X-Name-First: Marco
Author-X-Name-Last: Vivarelli
Author-Email: marco.vivarelli@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano and Piacenza
Title: Globalization and Technology Transfer in Ethiopia: Their Impact on Domestic Employment and Skills
Abstract: There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises from Ethiopia over the period 1996–2004 and deploying System Generalized Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a labour–augmenting effect, increasing total manufacturing employment. The two-equation dynamic framework implemented to analyse enterprise-level employment trends by skill level provides some evidence of skill-bias specific to enterprises with higher share of foreign ownership and those that that are located in the vicinity of the capital city. Exporters are not found to benefit from "learning by exporting"
Length: 27 pages
Creation-Date: 2014-04
Publication-Status: 
File-URL: http://www.unicatt.it/dipartimenti/DISES/allegati/dises1498.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2014
Number: dises1498
Classification-JEL: O33, F16, L60, O55, C33
Keywords: Employment, skills, globalization, FDI, trade, technological change, Ethiopia
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie2:dises1498