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ICT Adoption and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Mexican Firms

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dc.contributor.authorPereira-Lopez, Mariana
dc.contributor.authorIacovone, Leonardo
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-16T18:05:04Z
dc.date.available2018-01-16T18:05:04Z
dc.date.issued2018-01
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/295511515507675734/ICT-adoption-and-wage-inequality-evidence-from-Mexican-firms
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8298
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/29161
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 8298
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectICT
dc.subjectJOBS
dc.subjectLABOR DEMAND
dc.subjectSKILLS
dc.subjectTECHNICAL CHANGE
dc.subjectWAGES
dc.subjectINEQUALITY
dc.subjectTECHNOLOGY
dc.titleICT Adoption and Wage Inequalityen
dc.title.subtitleEvidence from Mexican Firmsen
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okr.crossref.titleICT Adoption and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Mexican Firms
okr.date.disclosure2018-01-09
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okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/295511515507675734/ICT-adoption-and-wage-inequality-evidence-from-Mexican-firms
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8298
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okr.region.administrativeLatin America and Caribbean
okr.region.countryMexico
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okr.topicInformation and Communication Technologies::ICT Economics
okr.topicPrivate Sector Development::Private Sector Economics
okr.topicScience and Technology Development::Technology Innovation
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.unitFinance, Competitiveness and Innovation Group
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