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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2005-11
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Wirtschaft
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Lohn
Erwerbstätigkeit
Georgia (Staat)
IKT-Sektor
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hotchkiss, Julie L.
Pitts, M. Melinda
Robertson, John C.
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Veröffentlichung
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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Atlanta, GA
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2005
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hotchkiss, Julie L.
- Pitts, M. Melinda
- Robertson, John C.
- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Time of origin
- 2005