Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/100971 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2005-11
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
This paper uses matched employer-employee data for the state of Georgia to examine workers’ earnings experience through the information technology (IT) sector’s employment boom of the mid-1990s and its bust in the early 2000s. The results show that even after controlling for individual characteristics before the sector’s boom, transitioning out of the IT sector to a non-IT industry generally resulted in a large wage penalty. However, IT service workers who transitioned to a non-IT industry still fared better than those who took a non-IT employment path. For IT manufacturing workers, there is no benefit to having worked in tech, likely because of the nontransferability of manufacturing experience to other industries.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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