@article{OsorioRodarte:332607,
      recid = {332607},
      author = {Osorio Rodarte, Israel},
      title = {Skill biased technological change across the development  spectrum},
      address = {2015},
      year = {2015},
      note = {Presented at the 18th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, Melbourne, Australia},
      abstract = {A central feature of development is the changing nature of  the production process of goods and services. Typically, as  countries become richer, production and trade patterns  change with a higher share of domestic value added being  generated through more sophisticated processes – both  within agriculture, services and industries as well as due  to a shift away from agriculture. During this process, most  countries have witnessed a marked increase in the demand  for skilled workers – in other words, the mirror image of  such shifting of economic production is a change in  occupations and, embedded, a transformation of the types of  human skills used in an economy. Overall, occupations which  require intensively manual skills give way to occupations  requiring more cognitive skills. The most common  explanation for these developments has been skill-biased  technological change (SBTC) stemming from progress in new  and more sophisticated industries, for example, Information  and Communication Technologies (ICT) (Autor, Katz, Krueger  1998; Kelly 2007). Positive relations have been found also  between demand for skills and research and development  expenditures, innovation or other technology proxy  variable. Alternative explanations for these upgrading of  skills have been globalisation via foreign trade (Morrison  Paul and Siegel 2001), including outsourcing (Geishecker  2006; Minondo and Rubert 2006); and organisational change  (Caroli and Van Reenen 2001; Piva et al. 2005).  The  empirical literature investigating skill-biased  technological change has mostly concentrated on high-income  countries, but some recent contributions have investigated  the issue for less developed countries (Kijima 2006 for  India; Kang and Hong 2002 for Korea). Nevertheless, the  cross-country comparative studies have also limited  themselves to developed OECD countries (Berman et al. 1998)  or added a scattered selection of developing countries  around the world (Berman and Machin 2000; Cörvers and  Jaanika, 20...},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/332607},
}