New Technologies, Wages, and Worker Selection

Entorf, Horst; Gollac, Michel; Kramarz, Françis

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“…Using individual worker data, and instrumental variables for wages, Borghans and Ter Weel (2001) show that it is most likely that the level of individual wages determines computer use, and that individual computer use does not substantially increase wages. This latter result is consistent with estimates presented by Enforf and Kramarz (1997) and Entorf et al (1999) for France.…”

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Are computer skills the new basic skills? The returns to computer, writing and math skills in Britain

Borghans

Weel

2004

Labour Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent, nonprofit limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) supported by the Deutsche Post AG. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. The current research program deals with (1) mobility and flexibility of labor, (2) internationalization of labor markets, (3) welfare state and labor market, (4) labor markets in transition countries, (5) the future of labor, (6) evaluation of labor market policies and projects and (7) general labor economics. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available on the IZA website (www.iza.org) or directly from the author. The large increase in computer use has raised the question whether people have to be taught computer skills before entering the labour market. Using data from the 1997 Skills Survey of the Employed British Workforce, we argue that neither the increase in computer use nor the fact that particularly higher skilled workers use a computer provides evidence that computer skills are valuable. We compare computer skills with writing and math skills and test whether wages vary with computer skills, given the specific use that is made of computers. The regression results show that while the ability to write documents and to carry out mathematical analyses yields significant labour-market returns, the ability to effectively use a computer has no substantial impact on wages. These estimates suggest that writing and math can be regarded as basic skills, but that the higher wages of computer users are unrelated to computer skills. JEL Classification:J30, J31

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“…With respect to the level of sophistication of computer 4 use, Entorf and Kramarz (1997) and Entorf et al (1999) …”

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Are computer skills the new basic skills? The returns to computer, writing and math skills in Britain

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Weel

2004

Labour Economics

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“…The panel methods, for example, hinge crucially on the assumption of time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity. In the presence of changing returns on unobserved skills, differencing the data will not remove the wage effect of unobservables 3 See Krueger [1993], who was the first to address the question of whether workers who use computers at work are paid more as a result of their computer skills or Entorf and Kramarz [1997] and Entorf, Gollac and Kramarz [1999], Bell [1996], who use panel data for France or the United Kingdom.…”

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The Returns to Pencil Use Revisited

Spitz‐Oener¹

2008

ILR Review

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Die Dis cus si on Pape rs die nen einer mög lichst schnel len Ver brei tung von neue ren For schungs arbei ten des ZEW. Die Bei trä ge lie gen in allei ni ger Ver ant wor tung der Auto ren und stel len nicht not wen di ger wei se die Mei nung des ZEW dar.Dis cus si on Papers are inten ded to make results of ZEW research prompt ly avai la ble to other eco no mists in order to encou ra ge dis cus si on and sug gesti ons for revi si ons. The aut hors are sole ly respon si ble for the con tents which do not neces sa ri ly repre sent the opi ni on of the ZEW.Download this ZEW Discussion Paper from our ftp server:ftp://ftp.zew.de/pub/zew-docs/dp/dp07020.pdf Non-technical summaryThe increased diffusion of computers is one of the fundamental changes at workplaces in recent decades and research on the productivity increasing effects of computer use as well as on how computers have changed the demand for labor is now wide spread. However, research on the wage effect of computer use still remains controversial. In particular, as recent studies have called into question the ability to distinguish the effect of computers from other confounding factors. The most cited paper that challenges the "causality"-interpretation of the positive wage mark-up for computer users relative to non-computer users is DiNardo and Pischke [1997], that also finds a positive correlation between wages and pencil use at the workplace.Using the same data set as DiNardo and Pischke, but a more recent wave, this paper contributes to this discussion by showing that the pencil effect disappeared in 1998/99, whereas the computer effect is still present. Building on the task-based view of technological change, I demonstrate that computer users -but not pencil users -have experienced a pronounced shift towards analytical and interactive tasks. The results further suggest that computer users are rewarded for their higher levels of analytical and interactive task inputs in the labor market. THE RETURNS TO PENCIL USE REVISITEDAlexandra Spitz-Oener* March 2007Abstract: The increased diffusion of computers is one of the fundamental changes at workplaces in recent decades. While the majority of workers now spend a substantial fraction of their working day with a computer, research on the wage effect of computer use effectively came to a halt after DiNardo and Pischke [1997] found that wages were also positively associated with pencil use, calling into question the ability to distinguish the effect of computers from other confounding factors. Using the same data set as DiNardo and Pischke, but a more recent wave, this paper revitalizes the discussion by showing that the pencil effect disappeared in 1998/99, whereas the computer effect is still present.Computer users -but not pencil users -have experienced a pronounced shift towards analytical and interactive tasks, for which they are rewarded in the workplace.JEL-classification: J31, C13,

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“…Entorf ve diğerler (Entorf, Gollac & Kramarz, 1999) BİT'in Fransa firmalarının istihdamları üzerindeki etkisini bir Logit modeli kullanarak tahmin etmişlerdir. Bu çalışma sonuçlarına göre, BİT kullanımı kısa dönemde firmaların istihdamları üzerinde negatif etkisi bulunmakta ancak uzun dönemde bu etki negatif olmamıştır.…”

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The Effect of Information and Communication Technologies (Ict) on Unemployment: An Application on Iran Economy

Karabulut¹,

Shahinpour²

2017

Kafkas Univ Vet Fak Derg

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New Technologies, Wages, and Worker Selection

Cited by 123 publications

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Are computer skills the new basic skills? The returns to computer, writing and math skills in Britain

Are computer skills the new basic skills? The returns to computer, writing and math skills in Britain

The Returns to Pencil Use Revisited

The Effect of Information and Communication Technologies (Ict) on Unemployment: An Application on Iran Economy

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