Assessing the differing impacts of a new computer technology on skills and pay in two departments of a large bank.

We describe how a single technological innovation, the introduction of image processing of checks, led to distinctly different changes in the structure of jobs in two departments of a large bank overseen by one group of managers. In the downstairs deposit processing department, image processing...

We apply an understanding of what computers do -- the execution of procedural or rules-based logic -- to study how computer technology alters job skill demands. We contend that computer capital (1) substitutes for a limited and well-defined set of human activities, those involving routine...

We apply an understanding of what computers do -- the execution of procedural or rules-based logic -- to study how computer technology alters job skill demands. We contend that computer capital (1) substitutes for a limited and well-defined set of human activities, those involving routine...

We apply an understanding of what computers do-the execution of procedural or rules-based logic-to study how computer technology alters job skill demands. We contend that computer capital (1) substitutes for workers in carrying out a limited and well-defined set of cognitive and manual...

Many empirical studies document a positive correlation between workplace computerization and the employment of skilled labor in production. Does this mean that computers necessarily substitute for the tasks performed by less educated workers and complement the tasks performed by more educated...

[...]In this paper, we argue that a major obstacle tohigher student achievement is a lack of good informationcomparing achievement levels to labor marketrequirements—the kind of information that can comethrough academic standards and assessments. Without this information, parents are unable to...