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multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are more likely to use computers than the Australian born. As the level of computer …, a finding that has implications for immigrant settlement policies. -- computers ; internet ; immigrants ; language …
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for less-skilled workers. Krueger's study (1993) showing a wage premium associated with using computers at work is one of … occurred in the early 1980s, which is inconsistent with a primary role for computers. Finally, computer use at work had … into account, computers seem to have had a net equalizing impact in the period Krueger studied. This casts significant …
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Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium …
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reflect that higher wage workers use computers on their jobs? We examine this issue with three large cross-sectional surveys …
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workers, the diffusion of computers has been interpreted as a mechanism for skill-biased technological change and consequent … was offset by falling within-group inequality, suggesting that computers have exerted a quot;levelingquot; rather than a …
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robots decreases male wage more than female wage, whereas an increase in computers reduces female wage more than male wage …
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multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are more likely to use computers than the Australian born. As the level of computer …
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This paper investigates the role of firm characteristics in driving wage inequality and firm wage premia in the South African labour market. The Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis (AKM) and Kline, Saggio, and Sølvsten (KSS) regression-based decomposition methods are applied to matched...
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Using nationally representative data on employment and earnings, this paper documents a fall in wage inequality in India over the last two decades. It then examines the role played by increasing minimum wages for the lowest skilled workers in India in contributing to the observed decline....
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Education has long been perceived as a great equalizer, but even with universal rises in schooling years, income distribution worsened world-wide. We propose a method for decomposing the contribution of a variable to the change in inequality into mean, dispersion, and price components. The...
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