ICT Adoption and Wage Inequality
This paper uses a panel of firms from the Mexican Economic Censuses and analyzes at the microeconomic level how labor markets adapt to the adoption of information and communication technologies. The paper studies the effects of the adoption of information and communication technologies over the labor structure of the firm and wages. Thus, it assesses whether increasing the use of information and communication technologies leads to an increasing demand for skilled relative to low-skilled labor, and, thus, analyzes its effects on the wage gap between the two groups. The results of this analysis show that there is indeed an effect of the adoption of information and communication technologies over the demand for higher-skilled workers. However, for the manufacturing and services sectors, instead of increasing the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers, the wage gap decreases. The results for the manufacturing sector appear to be driven by an increasing sophistication of blue-collar workers due to the organizational adjustments derived from the adoption of information and communication technologies.
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dig-okr-10986291612024-06-23T07:56:02Z ICT Adoption and Wage Inequality Evidence from Mexican Firms Pereira-Lopez, Mariana Iacovone, Leonardo ICT JOBS LABOR DEMAND SKILLS TECHNICAL CHANGE WAGES INEQUALITY TECHNOLOGY This paper uses a panel of firms from the Mexican Economic Censuses and analyzes at the microeconomic level how labor markets adapt to the adoption of information and communication technologies. The paper studies the effects of the adoption of information and communication technologies over the labor structure of the firm and wages. Thus, it assesses whether increasing the use of information and communication technologies leads to an increasing demand for skilled relative to low-skilled labor, and, thus, analyzes its effects on the wage gap between the two groups. The results of this analysis show that there is indeed an effect of the adoption of information and communication technologies over the demand for higher-skilled workers. However, for the manufacturing and services sectors, instead of increasing the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers, the wage gap decreases. The results for the manufacturing sector appear to be driven by an increasing sophistication of blue-collar workers due to the organizational adjustments derived from the adoption of information and communication technologies. 2018-01-16T18:05:04Z 2018-01-16T18:05:04Z 2018-01 Working Paper Document de travail Documento de trabajo http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/295511515507675734/ICT-adoption-and-wage-inequality-evidence-from-Mexican-firms https://hdl.handle.net/10986/29161 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8298 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank application/pdf text/plain World Bank, Washington, DC |
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This paper uses a panel of firms from
the Mexican Economic Censuses and analyzes at the
microeconomic level how labor markets adapt to the adoption
of information and communication technologies. The paper
studies the effects of the adoption of information and
communication technologies over the labor structure of the
firm and wages. Thus, it assesses whether increasing the use
of information and communication technologies leads to an
increasing demand for skilled relative to low-skilled labor,
and, thus, analyzes its effects on the wage gap between the
two groups. The results of this analysis show that there is
indeed an effect of the adoption of information and
communication technologies over the demand for
higher-skilled workers. However, for the manufacturing and
services sectors, instead of increasing the wage gap between
skilled and unskilled workers, the wage gap decreases. The
results for the manufacturing sector appear to be driven by
an increasing sophistication of blue-collar workers due to
the organizational adjustments derived from the adoption of
information and communication technologies. |
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Pereira-Lopez, Mariana Iacovone, Leonardo |
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ICT Adoption and Wage Inequality |
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