Arbeitspapier

Earnings on the information technology roller coaster: insight from matched employer-employee data

This paper uses matched employer-employee data for the state of Georgia to examine workers’ earnings experience through the information technology (IT) sector’s employment boom of the mid-1990s and its bust in the early 2000s. The results show that even after controlling for individual characteristics before the sector’s boom, transitioning out of the IT sector to a non-IT industry generally resulted in a large wage penalty. However, IT service workers who transitioned to a non-IT industry still fared better than those who took a non-IT employment path. For IT manufacturing workers, there is no benefit to having worked in tech, likely because of the nontransferability of manufacturing experience to other industries.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2005-11

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Lohn
Erwerbstätigkeit
Georgia (Staat)
IKT-Sektor

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hotchkiss, Julie L.
Pitts, M. Melinda
Robertson, John C.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
(wo)
Atlanta, GA
(wann)
2005

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hotchkiss, Julie L.
  • Pitts, M. Melinda
  • Robertson, John C.
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Entstanden

  • 2005

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