Our study provides the first census of the dispersion of Internet technology to commercial establishments in the United … States. We distinguish between participation, that is, use of the Internet because it is necessary for all business (e ….g., email and browsing) and enhancement, that is, adoption of Internet technology to enhance computing processes for competitive …

How did the diffusion of the internet affect regional wage inequality? We examine the relationship between business use … of advanced internet technology and local variation in US wage growth between 1995 and 2000. We find no evidence that the … internet contributed to regional wage convergence. Advanced internet technology is associated with larger wage growth in places …

The authors test opposing theories on how urban locations influenced the diffusion of Internet technology. They find … evidence that, controlling for industry, participation in the Internet is more likely in rural areas than in urban areas …. Nevertheless, talk of the dissolution of cities is premature. Frontier Internet technologies appear more often at establishments in …

We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced internet technology and the geographic concentration of … the early 2000s. Second, we compare the extent of invention in counties that were leaders in internet adoption to those … that were not. We see little difference in the growth rate of patenting between leaders and laggards in internet adoption …