random provision of computers. The experiment does not provide evidence that computer skills have short- or medium …

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 …

This paper examines whether employees who use a computer at work earn a higher wage rate than otherwise similar workers … who do not use a computer at work. The analysis primarily relies on data from the Current Population Survey and the High … be correlated with both job-related computer use and earnings. The estimates suggest that workers who use computers on …

manufacturing and services industries. We match information on computer utilization in the work place collected at the employee …In this paper, we make a first attempt to explore the relationship between computer use and productivity in French … level in the years 1987, 1991 and 1993, with information on firm productivity, capital intensity and average wage available …

This paper examines the output contributions of capital and labor deployed in information systems (IS) at the firm … size and significance of the excess returns to IS capital is larger. Computer capital and labor jointly contribute, or …

Innovation was rampant in the computer industry during the late 1960s and the 1970s. Did innovation vastly extend the … technological change. This paper argues that innovation freed computers of technical constraints to providing new services … features of a computer system as well? …