Insurance in the pre-computer era : 1900-1940s -- Institutional context for information processing in early 20th century life insurance -- First impressions and first uses : insurance and tabulating, 1890-1911 -- The push towards printing : tabulating technology and insurance, 1910-1924 --...

By exploiting establishment-level data, this paper sheds new light on the sources of the changes in the structure of production, wages, and employment that have occurred over the last several decades. We investigate the following two related hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in...