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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Main Authors:	Iacovone, Leonardo, Pereira-Lopez, Mariana
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	ICT JOBS LABOR DEMAND SKILLS TECHNICAL CHANGE WAGES INEQUALITY TECHNOLOGY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/295511515507675734/ICT-adoption-and-wage-inequality-evidence-from-Mexican-firms http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29161

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spelling	okr-10986-291612021-06-08T14:42:48Z ICT Adoption and Wage Inequality : Evidence from Mexican Firms Iacovone, Leonardo Pereira-Lopez, Mariana ICT JOBS LABOR DEMAND SKILLS TECHNICAL CHANGE WAGES INEQUALITY TECHNOLOGY 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. 2018-01-16T18:05:04Z 2018-01-16T18:05:04Z 2018-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/295511515507675734/ICT-adoption-and-wage-inequality-evidence-from-Mexican-firms http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29161 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8298 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Mexico
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spellingShingle	ICT JOBS LABOR DEMAND SKILLS TECHNICAL CHANGE WAGES INEQUALITY TECHNOLOGY Iacovone, Leonardo Pereira-Lopez, Mariana ICT Adoption and Wage Inequality : Evidence from Mexican Firms
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Iacovone, Leonardo Pereira-Lopez, Mariana
author_facet	Iacovone, Leonardo Pereira-Lopez, Mariana
author_sort	Iacovone, Leonardo
title	ICT Adoption and Wage Inequality : Evidence from Mexican Firms
title_short	ICT Adoption and Wage Inequality : Evidence from Mexican Firms
title_full	ICT Adoption and Wage Inequality : Evidence from Mexican Firms
title_fullStr	ICT Adoption and Wage Inequality : Evidence from Mexican Firms
title_full_unstemmed	ICT Adoption and Wage Inequality : Evidence from Mexican Firms
title_sort	ict adoption and wage inequality : evidence from mexican firms
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/295511515507675734/ICT-adoption-and-wage-inequality-evidence-from-Mexican-firms http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29161
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ICT Adoption and Wage Inequality : Evidence from Mexican Firms

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