Title: Does Importing Intermediates Increase the Demand for Skilled Workers? Plant-level Evidence from Indonesia By Hiroyuki Kasahara (University of British Columbia), Yawen Liang (University of British Columbia), Joel Rodrigue (Vanderbilt University) Friday, March 14th, 2014 3:30-5:00 p.m. Abstract: This paper examines whether importing has contributed to skill upgrading among Indonesian plants. Our data records the distribution of years of employee schooling in each plant. We examine how importing affects the demand for highly educated workers within both production and non-production occupation categories at the plant level. We estimate a model of importing and skill-biased technological change in which selection into importing arises due to unobservable heterogenous returns from importing. We nd that importing has substantially increased the relative demand for educated production workers, but has had little impact on the demand for educated non-production workers.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 02:55:13 +0000
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