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computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … diffusion of technologies on wages in the cross section which is not robust to endogeneity and fixed effects; (iii) at the firm … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …
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The wage premium for high-skilled workers in the United States, measured as the ratio of the 90th-to-10th percentiles from the wage distribution, increased by 20 percent from the 1970s to the late 1980s. A large literature has emerged to explain this phenomenon. A leading explanation is that...
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How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...
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investigated the impact of the presence of foreign firms on wages of workers from domestic firms. First, we found that the average … wages from foreign to domestic firms. Third, the presence of foreign firms is found to widen the wage gap between skilled …
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