APL (Ajiken Power Lunch)

APL (Ajiken Power Lunch) is a lunchtime workshop open to public, including IDE staffs, visiting research fellows, IDEAS students, outside researchers and graduate students. This workshop provides a platform for presentation of any work in progress where we can discuss in either English or Japanese.

Those who would attend a seminar are asked to announce yourself to receptionists on your arrival at the IDE and to obtain APL Organizers' signature on your admission card after the seminar.

March 11, 2019. (Monday) 12:30-13:30

Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization C24 Meeting Room 　

Technology Embedded in Capital Inputs and Employment (joint with Samuel Nursamu, ERIA)

This paper discusses a methodology to calculate technological upgrading in developing countries and applies that to the Indonesian case. In importing capital goods, developing country firms also import the technology embedded in these goods. Research and development intensity in developed country trade partners is thus directly associated with technology content of capital inputs. To the extent that such research and development activity gives rise to labor-saving technology, there could be implications for labor markets in developing countries.

Dr. Ha Thi Thanh Doan and Dr. Rashesh Shrestha (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia [ERIA])

Tomohiro Machikita

English