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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Michaels, Guy
• Natraj, Ashwini
• Van Reenen, John

Titel

HAS ICT POLARIZED SKILL DEMAND? EVIDENCE FROM ELEVEN COUNTRIES OVER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

Ist Teil von

• The review of economics and statistics, 2014-03, Vol.96 (1), p.60-77

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: The MIT Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We test the hypothesis that information and communication technologies (ICT) polarize labor markets by increasing demand for the highly educated at the expense of the middle educated, with little effect on low-educated workers. Using data on the United States, Japan, and nine European countries from 1980 to 2004, we find that industries with faster ICT growth shifted demand from middle-educated workers to highly educated workers, consistent with ICT-based polarization. Trade openness is also associated with polarization, but this is not robust to controlling for R&D. Technologies account for up to a quarter of the growth in demand for highly educated workers.