Is Skill-Biased Technological Change Here Yet? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing in the 1990
Most high and middle-income countries showed symptoms of skill-biased technological change in the 1980s. India-a low income country-did not, perhaps because India's traditionally controlled economy may have limited the transfer of technologies from abroad. However the economy underwent a sharp...
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okr-10986-84822021-04-23T14:02:43Z Is Skill-Biased Technological Change Here Yet? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing in the 1990 Berman, Eli Somanathan, Rohini Tan, Hong W. ADJUSTMENT COSTS AGGREGATE DEMAND AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CYCLES CAPITAL GOODS CAPITAL STOCK CAPITAL-SKILL CAPITAL-SKILL COMPLEMENTARITY CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE DEMAND CURVE DEMAND FOR EDUCATION DEMAND FOR SKILL DEMAND FOR SKILLS EDUCATED WORKERS ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT GROWTH EMPLOYMENT INCREASE EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES EMPLOYMENT SHARE EQUATIONS EXPORTS FOREIGN EXCHANGE FOREIGN INVESTMENT FOREIGN MARKETS GDP GNP HUMAN CAPITAL IMPORT QUOTAS INCOME INDUSTRIAL POLICY INDUSTRY COMPONENTS INVESTMENT LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS MARGINAL PRODUCT MARGINAL PRODUCTS MEASURES OF TECHNOLOGY MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES MONOPOLIES PATTERN OF SKILL UPGRADING PATTERNS OF SKILL UPGRADING PREVIOUS SECTION PREVIOUS WORK PRIVATE FIRMS PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCT MIX PRODUCTION FUNCTION PUBLIC INVESTMENT PUBLIC SECTOR R&D REGULATION REGULATORY FRAMEWORK SCALE EFFECTS SKILL UPGRADING SKILLED LABOR SKILLED WORKERS STATEMENT STATEMENTS SUPPLY CURVES TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION TOTAL WAGE TRADE LIBERALIZATION TRADE POLICIES UNSKILLED LABOR UNSKILLED WORKERS VALUE ADDED WAGE BILL WAGES WORKERS Most high and middle-income countries showed symptoms of skill-biased technological change in the 1980s. India-a low income country-did not, perhaps because India's traditionally controlled economy may have limited the transfer of technologies from abroad. However the economy underwent a sharp reform and a manufacturing boom in the 1990s, raising the possibility that technology absorption may have accelerated during the past decade. The authors investigate the hypothesis that skill-biased technological change did in fact arrive in India in the 1990s using panel data disaggregated by industry and state from the Annual Survey of Industry. These data confirm that while the 1980s were a period of falling skills demand, the 1990s showed generally rising demand for skills, with variation across states. They find that increased output and capital-skill complementarity appear to be the best explanations of skill upgrading in the 1990s. Skill upgrading did not occur in the same set of industries in India as it did in other countries, suggesting that increased demand for skills in Indian manufacturing is not due to the international diffusion of recent vintages of skill-biased technologies. 2012-06-19T20:20:42Z 2012-06-19T20:20:42Z 2005-11 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/11/6361931/skill-biased-technological-change-yet-evidence-indian-manufacturing-1990 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8482 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3761 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research South Asia India |
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ADJUSTMENT COSTS AGGREGATE DEMAND AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CYCLES CAPITAL GOODS CAPITAL STOCK CAPITAL-SKILL CAPITAL-SKILL COMPLEMENTARITY CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE DEMAND CURVE DEMAND FOR EDUCATION DEMAND FOR SKILL DEMAND FOR SKILLS EDUCATED WORKERS ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT GROWTH EMPLOYMENT INCREASE EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES EMPLOYMENT SHARE EQUATIONS EXPORTS FOREIGN EXCHANGE FOREIGN INVESTMENT FOREIGN MARKETS GDP GNP HUMAN CAPITAL IMPORT QUOTAS INCOME INDUSTRIAL POLICY INDUSTRY COMPONENTS INVESTMENT LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS MARGINAL PRODUCT MARGINAL PRODUCTS MEASURES OF TECHNOLOGY MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES MONOPOLIES PATTERN OF SKILL UPGRADING PATTERNS OF SKILL UPGRADING PREVIOUS SECTION PREVIOUS WORK PRIVATE FIRMS PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCT MIX PRODUCTION FUNCTION PUBLIC INVESTMENT PUBLIC SECTOR R&D REGULATION REGULATORY FRAMEWORK SCALE EFFECTS SKILL UPGRADING SKILLED LABOR SKILLED WORKERS STATEMENT STATEMENTS SUPPLY CURVES TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION TOTAL WAGE TRADE LIBERALIZATION TRADE POLICIES UNSKILLED LABOR UNSKILLED WORKERS VALUE ADDED WAGE BILL WAGES WORKERS |
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ADJUSTMENT COSTS AGGREGATE DEMAND AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CYCLES CAPITAL GOODS CAPITAL STOCK CAPITAL-SKILL CAPITAL-SKILL COMPLEMENTARITY CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE DEMAND CURVE DEMAND FOR EDUCATION DEMAND FOR SKILL DEMAND FOR SKILLS EDUCATED WORKERS ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYMENT GROWTH EMPLOYMENT INCREASE EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES EMPLOYMENT SHARE EQUATIONS EXPORTS FOREIGN EXCHANGE FOREIGN INVESTMENT FOREIGN MARKETS GDP GNP HUMAN CAPITAL IMPORT QUOTAS INCOME INDUSTRIAL POLICY INDUSTRY COMPONENTS INVESTMENT LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS MARGINAL PRODUCT MARGINAL PRODUCTS MEASURES OF TECHNOLOGY MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES MONOPOLIES PATTERN OF SKILL UPGRADING PATTERNS OF SKILL UPGRADING PREVIOUS SECTION PREVIOUS WORK PRIVATE FIRMS PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCT MIX PRODUCTION FUNCTION PUBLIC INVESTMENT PUBLIC SECTOR R&D REGULATION REGULATORY FRAMEWORK SCALE EFFECTS SKILL UPGRADING SKILLED LABOR SKILLED WORKERS STATEMENT STATEMENTS SUPPLY CURVES TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION TOTAL WAGE TRADE LIBERALIZATION TRADE POLICIES UNSKILLED LABOR UNSKILLED WORKERS VALUE ADDED WAGE BILL WAGES WORKERS Berman, Eli Somanathan, Rohini Tan, Hong W. Is Skill-Biased Technological Change Here Yet? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing in the 1990 |
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Most high and middle-income countries showed symptoms of skill-biased technological change in the 1980s. India-a low income country-did not, perhaps because India's traditionally controlled economy may have limited the transfer of technologies from abroad. However the economy underwent a sharp reform and a manufacturing boom in the 1990s, raising the possibility that technology absorption may have accelerated during the past decade. The authors investigate the hypothesis that skill-biased technological change did in fact arrive in India in the 1990s using panel data disaggregated by industry and state from the Annual Survey of Industry. These data confirm that while the 1980s were a period of falling skills demand, the 1990s showed generally rising demand for skills, with variation across states. They find that increased output and capital-skill complementarity appear to be the best explanations of skill upgrading in the 1990s. Skill upgrading did not occur in the same set of industries in India as it did in other countries, suggesting that increased demand for skills in Indian manufacturing is not due to the international diffusion of recent vintages of skill-biased technologies. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Berman, Eli Somanathan, Rohini Tan, Hong W. |
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Berman, Eli Somanathan, Rohini Tan, Hong W. |
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Berman, Eli |
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Is Skill-Biased Technological Change Here Yet? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing in the 1990 |
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Is Skill-Biased Technological Change Here Yet? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing in the 1990 |
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Is Skill-Biased Technological Change Here Yet? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing in the 1990 |
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Is Skill-Biased Technological Change Here Yet? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing in the 1990 |
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Is Skill-Biased Technological Change Here Yet? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing in the 1990 |
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is skill-biased technological change here yet? evidence from indian manufacturing in the 1990 |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/11/6361931/skill-biased-technological-change-yet-evidence-indian-manufacturing-1990 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8482 |
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