Return to Computer Use and Organizational Practices of the firm

Benoit Dostie () and Mathieu Trépanier

No 04-06, Cahiers de recherche from HEC Montréal, Institut d'économie appliquée

Abstract: In this paper, we test the hypothesis that computer use will lead to productivity gains only if the firm uses an appropriate set of organizational practices. Detailed data on organizational practices and workers. compensation are obtained through a Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee database called the Workplace and Employee Survey (WES). Linked data allow us to take into account both worker and firm unobserved heterogeneity through the estimation of a linear mixed model of wage determination. Our results suggest a small but positive computer-wage premium whose size is related to a set of organizational practices.

Keywords: Wage determination; Human capital; New technologies; Computers; Mixed models; Linked employer-employee data; Organizational Practices of the Firm. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2004-08
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