- P-ISSN 1738-656X
- E-ISSN 2586-4130
한국개발연구. Vol. 34, No. 1, March 2012, pp. 87-133
https://doi.org/10.23895/kdijep.2012.34.1.87
The second part provides empirical evidence in support of the extension part of the model presented in the first part. Based on the endogenous growth framework as proposed by Romer(1990) and Rivera-Batiz and Romer(1991), the model explains how economic openness affects labor allocation between skilled and unskilled sectors. According to the model, economic openness can affect labor allocation through two channels; knowledge spillover and specialization. First, the openness promotes knowledge spillover and hence increases the productivity of workers in the skilled sectors. This makes the economy employs more workers in the skilled sector. On the other hand, the openness causes global specialization which leads more employment in the skilled sector for the developed countries but at the same time, leads less employment in the skilled sector for the developing countries since the developing countries have comparative advantages in the unskilled sector. The empirical results obtained using cross country panel data in this paper support these two effects of knowledge spillover and specialization.
고용구조(Employment Structure), 임금(Wage), 특화(Specialization), 지식확산(Knowledge Spillover), 개방(Openness)
J22, J32