THE SKILL COMPLEMENTARITY OF BROADBAND INTERNET
THE SKILL COMPLEMENTARITY OF BROADBAND INTERNET
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DOI：
10.1093/qje/qjv028
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发表时间：
2015-11-01
影响因子：
13.7
通讯作者：
Mogstad, Magne
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作者：
Akerman, Anders;Gaarder, Ingvil;Mogstad, Magne
企业采用宽带互联网是否会提高劳动生产率并增加工资？这种技术变革技能是有偏见的还是中立的？我们联合收割机几个挪威的数据集来回答这些问题。一个资金有限的公共项目推出了宽带接入点，并在公司宽带互联网的可用性和采用方面提供了合理的外源性变化。我们的研究结果表明，宽带互联网改善了劳动力市场的结果和熟练（非熟练）工人的生产率。我们探讨了宽带互联网的技能互补性的几种可能的解释。我们发现暗示性的证据表明，宽带采用公司补充技术工人在执行非常规抽象任务，并代替非技术工人在执行常规任务。总的来说，我们的研究结果对政府投资宽带基础设施以鼓励生产力和工资增长的政策辩论具有重要意义。
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? Is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We combine several Norwegian data sets 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 market 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.