ICT Adoption and Wage Inequality : Evidence from Mexican Firms
This paper uses a panel of firms from the Mexican Economic Censuses and analyzes at the microeconomic level how labor markets adapt to the adoption of information and communication technologies. The paper studies the effects of the adoption of info...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/295511515507675734/ICT-adoption-and-wage-inequality-evidence-from-Mexican-firms http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29161 |
| Summary: | This paper uses a panel of firms from
the Mexican Economic Censuses and analyzes at the
microeconomic level how labor markets adapt to the adoption
of information and communication technologies. The paper
studies the effects of the adoption of information and
communication technologies over the labor structure of the
firm and wages. Thus, it assesses whether increasing the use
of information and communication technologies leads to an
increasing demand for skilled relative to low-skilled labor,
and, thus, analyzes its effects on the wage gap between the
two groups. The results of this analysis show that there is
indeed an effect of the adoption of information and
communication technologies over the demand for
higher-skilled workers. However, for the manufacturing and
services sectors, instead of increasing the wage gap between
skilled and unskilled workers, the wage gap decreases. The
results for the manufacturing sector appear to be driven by
an increasing sophistication of blue-collar workers due to
the organizational adjustments derived from the adoption of
information and communication technologies. |
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