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Computing Inequality : Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?

Autor, David H. - 1997

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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From Superminis to Supercomputers : Estimating Surplus in the Computing Market

Greenstein, Shane - 1994

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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Did Computer Technology Diffuse Quickly? : Best and Average Practice in Mainframe Computers, 1968-1983

Greenstein, Shane M. - 1994

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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Computerization and Immigration : Theory and Evidence from the United States

Basso, Gaetano - 2017

The changes in technology that took place in the US during the last three decades, mainly due to the introduction of computerization and automation, have been characterized as "routine-substituting." They have reduced the demand for routine tasks, but have increased the demand for analytical...

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