We investigate the impact of technology adoption on workers’ wages and mobility in U.S. manufacturing plants by … first examine the effect of technology use on wage determination, and find that technology adoption does not have a … technology use on worker mobility, and find that mobility rates are higher in high-technology plants, and that high-skill workers …

innovation and other outcomes. This paper examines the role of industry and technology heterogeneity in the diffusion of advanced … probabilities and corresponding half-lives, look for outliers in technology and industry diffusion patterns, and try to find … explanations of their unusual behavior in idiosyncratic technology and industry characteristics. A consistent industry …

studies may have overlooked the role of investment reversibility and uncertainty as important determinants of technology …