Wage Premiums for On-the-Job Computer Use: A Metro and Nonmetro Analysis

Lorin D. Kusmin

No 334715, Rural Development Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: An analysis of on-the-job computer use shows that such use is more common in metro areas than in nonmetro areas. A substantial wage premium, 10 to 11 percent, is associated with using a computer on the job, even after other job and worker characteristics are taken into account. However, this wage premium accounts for only a small proportion of the wage differences between metro and nonmetro areas. In nonmetro areas, the computer use wage premium is only about 6 percent. This suggests that computer literacy skills may only modestly advance the earnings of low-wage workers within their current occupations in rural areas.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Labor and Human Capital; Research Methods/Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37
Date: 2002-12
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.334715

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