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    The Impact of Trade and Technology on Skills in Viet Nam

    Poole, Jennifer P.; Santos-Paulino, Amelia U.; Sokolova, Maria V.; DiCaprio, Alisa | August 2017
    Abstract
    Market-oriented reforms, such as liberalizing trade and encouraging foreign direct investment, can generate large efficiency gains for a country. However, there is also concern that lower-skilled workers are increasingly being replaced by technology and that more globalized markets are harming employment opportunities. This paper investigates these important issues by exploring household surveys from Viet Nam, combined with information on the task content of occupations, industrial exposure to international trade, and access to technology across the country. We assess the extent to which exposure to foreign markets and access to digital technologies affect the demand for different types of skills, by exploiting the fact that provinces vary in the degree of access to digital technologies and industries vary in the degree of exposure to foreign markets. In our work, we also extend much of the literature to consider the interplay between trade and technology on labor demand. On its own, technological change does not appear to be a main driver of the demand for skill in Viet Nam. Increased trade, rather, does expand employment opportunities across both skilled and unskilled workers. Consistent with classic trade theory, the increase is stronger for manual and routine tasks, shifting the composition of the labor force toward lower-skilled workers. However, the increase in manual and routine employment opportunities in response to the trade shock is smaller in areas of the country with access to digital technologies, providing suggestive evidence of the routine-biased nature of technology. From a policy standpoint, our work contributes to an understanding of job requirements and job security in an increasingly technology-driven and integrated world economy. Our research also offers insights for other lesser developing countries that face similar challenges.
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    Poole, Jennifer P.; Santos-Paulino, Amelia U.; Sokolova, Maria V.; DiCaprio, Alisa. 2017. The Impact of Trade and Technology on Skills in Viet Nam. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/7376.
    Keywords
    Trade And Development
    Large Scale Industry
    Regional Trade
    Commerce and Industry
    Trade Negotiations
    Merchandise Trade
    Domestic Trade
    Computer Industry
    Trade Regulation
    Telecommunication Companies
    Rural Rehabilitation
    Biotechnology
    Interindustry Trade
    Industrial Policy
    Industrial Investment
    Industrial Development
    Small Scale Industry
    Medium Scale Industry
    Local Industry
    Transport Infrastructure
    Trade regulations
    Telecommunications Industry
    Computers
    Trade data interchange
    Access to markets
    Rural development
    Unfair competition
    Supply and demand
    Energy policy
    Developing countries
    Industrial organizations
    Creative industries
    Investment banking
    Microfinance
    Financial planning industry
    Infrastructure
    Manufactures
    Business failures
    Wages and labor productivity
    Microelectronics industry
    Electronic industries
    Digital electronics
    Microelectronics
    Electronic commerce
    Business enterprises
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    Author
    Poole, Jennifer P.
    Santos-Paulino, Amelia U.
    Sokolova, Maria V.
    DiCaprio, Alisa
    Theme
    Industry
    Trade
    Small Medium Business
     
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    Copyright 2016-2021 Asian Development Bank Institute, except as explicitly marked otherwise