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1 Introduction: Marginalisation and Globalisation in Transitional China / Heather Xiaoquan Zhang and Richard Sanders Part I China in Transition: Inequality, Poverty and Marginalisation 2 Marginalisation in the Chinese Countryside: The Question of Rural Poverty / Richard Sanders, Yang Chen and Yiying Cao 3 Marginalisation of Laid-Off State-Owned Enterprise Workers in Wuhan / Jun Tang, Mingzhu Dong and Mark Duda 4 Marginalisation in the Chinese Energy Sector: The Case of Township and Village Coal Mines / Philip Andrews-Speed 5 Living and Working at the Margin: Rural Migrant Workers in China's Transitional Cities / Li Zhang 6 Marginalisation and Health Provision in Transitional China / Zhiqiang Feng 7 Institutional Responses to the Changing Patterns of Poverty and Marginalisation in China since 1949 / Ka Lin Part II Marginalisation in the Era of Globalisation in China 8 Globalisation and Marginalisation of Chinese Overseas Contract Workers

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct measure of technology transfer at the sector level from high income countries (HICs), namely those economies which have already experienced the occurrence of skill-biased technological change, to LMICs. GMM techniques are applied to an original panel dataset comprising 28 manufacturing sectors for 23 countries over a decade. Econometric results provide robust evidence of the determinants of widening employment differentials in LMICs. In particular, capital-skill complementarity represents a source of relative skill-bias while SETI provides an absolute skill-bias effect on the employment trends of skilled and unskilled workers witnessed in these countries.

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