The Returns to Computer Use Revisited: Have Pencils Changed the Wage Structure Too?

John Enrico DiNardo and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

Working papers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics

Abstract: Are the large measured returns to on-the-job computer-use productivity gains or the result of unobserved heterogeneity unrelated to productivity? We examine this issue with two large cross-sectional surveys from Germany.

Keywords: COMPUTERS; TECHNOLOGY; WAGES; INNOVATIONS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J30 J31 L63 O30 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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