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dc.contributor.authorRiddell, W. Craigen
dc.contributor.authorSong, Xuedaen
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-10-
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-15T07:51:50Z-
dc.date.available2012-06-15T07:51:50Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-201206146529en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/58720-
dc.description.abstractAdoption of innovations by firms and workers is an important part of the process of technological change. Many prior studies find that highly educated workers tend to adopt new technologies faster than those with less education. Such positive correlations between the level of education and the rate of technology adoption, however, do not necessarily reflect the true causal effect of education on technology adoption. Relying on data from the Workplace and Employee Survey, this study assesses the causal effects of education on technology use and adoption by using instrumental variables for schooling derived from Canadian compulsory school attendance laws. We find that education increases the probability of using computers in the job and that employees with more education have longer work experiences in using computers than those with less education. However, education does not influence the use of computer-controlled and computer-assisted devices or other technological devices such as cash registers and sales terminals. Our estimates are consistent with the view that formal education increases the use of technologies that require or enable workers to carry out higher order tasks, but not those that routinize workplace tasks.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x6377en
dc.subject.jelI20en
dc.subject.jelO33en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordtechnology use and adoptionen
dc.subject.keywordeducationen
dc.subject.keywordcausal effectsen
dc.subject.keywordcompulsory schooling lawsen
dc.subject.keywordheterogeneity in technologyen
dc.subject.stwComputerunterstützungen
dc.subject.stwArbeitsplatzen
dc.subject.stwInnovationsdiffusionen
dc.subject.stwBildungsniveauen
dc.subject.stwSchätzungen
dc.subject.stwKanadaen
dc.titleThe role of education in technology use and adoption: Evidence from the Canadian workplace and employee survey-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn715538071en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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