skills who do not usecomputers. Controlling for likely simultaneity between computer use at work and labor marketearnings … makes the apparent returns to computer use disappear. These results are corroboratedusing Russian longitudinal data on … earnings and computer use on the job. High costs of computeruse in transition economies suppress wages that firms can pay their …

We use data on imports of computer equipment for a large sample of countries between 1970and 1990 to investigate the … determinants of computer-technology adoption. We find strongevidence that computer adoption is associated with higher levels of …

skills who do not use computers. Controlling for likely simultaneity between computer use at work and labor market earnings … makes the apparent returns to computer use disappear. These results are corroborated using Russian longitudinal data on … earnings and computer use on the job. High costs of computer use in transition economies suppress wages that firms can pay …