| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w20826 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 20826 |
| The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet | |
| Anders Akerman; Ingvil Gaarder; Magne Mogstad | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-01-19 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data to answer these questions. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points, and provides plausibly exogenous variation in the availability and adoption of broadband internet in firms. Our results suggest that broadband internet improves (worsens) the labor outcomes and productivity of skilled (unskilled) workers. We explore several possible explanations for the skill complementarity of broadband internet. We find suggestive evidence that broadband adoption in firms complements skilled workers in executing nonroutine abstract tasks, and substitutes for unskilled workers in performing routine tasks. Taken together, our findings have important implications for the ongoing policy debate over government investment in broadband infrastructure to encourage productivity and wage growth. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Compensation ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20826 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578517 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Anders Akerman,Ingvil Gaarder,Magne Mogstad. The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet. 2015. |
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