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Digital Technology Adoption and Jobs: A Model of Firm Heterogeneity

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dc.contributor.authorBrambilla, Irene
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-31T20:44:47Z
dc.date.available2018-01-31T20:44:47Z
dc.date.issued2018-01
dc.description.abstractThis paper develops a theoretical framework that expands the task-based models of technical progress and labor markets to allow for firm heterogeneity and wages that vary across firms. The model is compatible with the empirical observation that more productive firms are larger, are more skill intensive, and pay higher wages across skill categories. The model predicts that the decision to invest in information and communications technology depends on firm size and labor market characteristics. As a result of investment in information and communications technology firms grow, become more intensive in complex tasks, become more skilled intensive, and employ more skilled workers as long as skilled labor is complementary to information and communications technology. Employment of unskilled workers increases as well, provided that firm output growth is sufficiently high to overcome the negative substitution effect. Workers who remain employed are better off because their wage increases with information and communications technology. To the extent that skilled workers have more bargaining power than unskilled workers, or that their wage scheme is more tied to firm performance, wage inequality at the firm level increases with information and communications technology.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/217701517406450447/Digital-technology-adoption-and-jobs-a-model-of-firm-heterogeneity
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8326
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/29292
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 8326
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.subjectTECHNOLOGY ADOPTION
dc.subjectFIRM HETEROGENEITY
dc.subjectFIRM PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectINFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.subjectSKILLED LABOR
dc.subjectWAGE GAP
dc.subjectINEQUALITY
dc.titleDigital Technology Adoption and Jobsen
dc.title.subtitleA Model of Firm Heterogeneityen
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okr.crossref.titleDigital Technology Adoption and Jobs: A Model of Firm Heterogeneity
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okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/217701517406450447/Digital-technology-adoption-and-jobs-a-model-of-firm-heterogeneity
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8326
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okr.topicInformation and Communication Technologies::ICT Economics
okr.topicInformation and Communication Technologies::Information Technology
okr.topicPrivate Sector Development::Private Sector Economics
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Skills Development and Labor Force Training
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Wages, Compensation & Benefits
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.unitFinance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice
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