Guta, Ashenafi Teshome: Essays in globalization Technology and the Labor Market. 2019
Inhalt
- Abstract
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- Job Polarization in Developing Countries: Evidence from Ethiopia
- The Impact of Firms' Global Market Engagement on the Local Labor Market
- International Trade and Equilibrium Unemployment with Heterogeneous Firms and Workers
- Contributions
- Job Polarization in Developing Countries: Evidence from Ethiopia
- Introduction
- Literature Review
- The Skill-Biased Technological Change SBTC from Factor-Neutral to Factor-Biased Technological Change
- From the Skill-Biased to Task-Biased Technological Change
- The Labor Market in Developing Countries
- Data Sources
- Empirical Strategy and Results
- Job Complexity and Routines
- Employment Growth by Major Occupations
- Regression Estimates
- Job Polarization and Industry Composition: A Shift-Share Analysis
- Regional Employment Distribution and Job Polarization at Regional Level
- Why Job Polarization Exists: Discussion
- Conclusion
- The Labor Market Impact of Globalization
- Introduction
- Overview of the Related Literature
- Data Sources and Descriptive Analysis
- Globalization and the Labor Market in Ethiopia: An Overview
- Globalization Index
- Trade and Trade Reforms in Ethiopia
- Trends and Performance of FDI in Ethiopia
- Labor Market Performance in Ethiopia
- Econometrics Modeling and Specifications
- Result: Impact of Globalization
- Conclusion
- International Trade and Equilibrium Unemployment With Heterogeneous Firms and Workers
- Introduction
- Overview of the Related Literature
- Framework and Analysis of the Model
- Value Functions and the Firm's Revenue Function: One-Firm One-Worker Case
- Trade Liberalization
- Multiple-Worker Firms
- Wage Determination
- Productivity Threshold
- Unemployment
- Trade Liberalization
- Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Tightness
- Trade Liberalization and the Wage Differential
- Conclusion