Earnings on the information technology roller coaster: insight from matched employer-employee data

Julie Hotchkiss, Melinda Pitts and John Robertson

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Abstract: This article uses matched employer-employee data for the State of Georgia to examine workers' earnings experience through the information technology (IT) sector's employment boom of the mid-1990's and bust in the early 2000s. The results show that even after controlling for pre-boom individual characteristics, transitioning out of the IT sector to a non-IT industry generally resulted in a large wage penalty. However, IT service workers who transitioned to a non-IT industry still fared better than workers who took a non-IT employment path. For IT manufacturing workers, there is no benefit to having been touched by technology, likely because of the nontransferability of manufacturing experience to other industries.

Keywords: push-pull; migration; information technology; administrative data; profit analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 R23 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-10
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Published in Southern Economic Journal 2.73(2006): pp. 342-361

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