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Computing Inequality : Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?
Autor, David H. - 2007
skill upgrading in the 1970s and 1980s versus the 1960s are those with greater growth in employee computer usage, more … computer capital per worker and larger investment as a share of total investment. The results suggest that the spread of … computer technology may `explain' as much as 30-50% of the increase in the rate of growth of the relative demand for more …
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Computerization and Immigration : Theory and Evidence from the United States
Basso, Gaetano - 2017
Recent technological changes have been characterized as “routine-substituting,” reducing demand for routine tasks but increasing it for analytical and service tasks. Little is known about how these changes have impacted immigration, or task specialization between immigrants and natives. In...
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Did Computer Technology Diffuse Quickly? : Best and Average Practice in Mainframe Computers, 1968-1983
Greenstein, Shane M. - 2021
An economy benefits from advances in technical frontiers only when new technology comes into general use. This paper measures the diffusion of computing equipment at a time when computing technology underwent dramatic technical improvement. These data shed light on the long lag between advances...
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From Superminis to Supercomputers : Estimating Surplus in the Computing Market
Greenstein, Shane M. - 2021
Innovation was rampant in the computer industry during the late 1960s and the 1970s. Did innovation vastly extend the … features of a computer system as well? …
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