change on wages. The narrative describes technological change as allowing for the increased codification of routine tasks … constant measures of occupational task requirements. That approach is unable to explore how wages respond to the time variant …

adopting a computer. This premium, however, obscures important differences in returns to computer adoption across education and … occupation groups. We find that long-run returns to computer use are over 5% for most workers. Differences between short-run and … long-run returns may suggest that workers share training costs through sacrificed wages …

find that within a year of adopting a computer, the average worker earns a 3.6 percent higher wage than a worker who never … used a computer. Returns are even larger for managers and professionals, highly educated workers, and those with … significant prior computer experience. Employees who adopt computers for use with applications that require high cognitive skills …

marital status and computer usage on wages. Within-twin estimates indicate that, unlike education, job tenure and union status …, neither marital status nor computer usage have a large or significant effect on wages …Both marital status and computer usage on the job have been found to increase earnings by as much as two additional …