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dc.contributor.author | Borghans, Lex | en |
dc.contributor.author | ter Weel, Bas | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-01-28T16:13:24Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-01-28T16:13:24Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20342 | - |
dc.description.abstract | When workers adopt technology at the point where the costs equal the increasedproductivity, output per worker increases immediately, while the productivity benefits increaseonly gradually if the costs continue to fall. As a result, workers in computer-adopting labormarket groups experience an immediate fall in wages due to increased supply. On the otherhand, adopting workers experience wage increases with some delay. This model explainswhy increased computer use does not immediately lead to higher wage inequality. Morespecifically, the results of the model are shown to be consistent with the question why withingroupwage inequality among skilled workers as a result of computer technology adoption inthe United States increased in the 1970s, while between-group wage inequality and withingroupwage inequality among the unskilled did not start to increase until the 1980s. Themodel also suggests that the slow diffusion of computer technology in Germany along withthe absence of major changes in the wage structure in the 1980s is consistent with the morecompressed German wage structure. Finally, the theoretical predictions seem to be of theright magnitude to explain the empirical quantities observed in the data. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonn | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aIZA Discussion Papers |x1107 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O33 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O15 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J31 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | wage level and structure | en |
dc.subject.keyword | diffusion of computer | en |
dc.subject.stw | PC (Personal Computer) | en |
dc.subject.stw | Computergestütztes Verfahren | en |
dc.subject.stw | Innovationsdiffusion | en |
dc.subject.stw | Produktivität | en |
dc.subject.stw | Lohnstruktur | en |
dc.subject.stw | Theorie | en |
dc.subject.stw | Schätzung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Vereinigte Staaten | en |
dc.subject.stw | Deutschland | en |
dc.title | The Diffusion of Computers and the Distribution of Wages | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 384853293 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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