Returns to Computer Use and Organizational Practices of the Firm

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In this paper, we test the hypothesis that computer use will lead to productivity gains only if the firm uses an appropriate set of organizational practices. Detailed data on organizational practices and workers? compensation are obtained through a Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee database called the Workplace and Employee Survey (WES). Linked data allow us to take into account both worker and firm unobserved heterogeneity through the estimation of a linear mixed model of wage determination. Our results suggest a small but positive computer-wage premium whose size is related to a set of organizational practices.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1541

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Firm Behavior: Theory ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
• Subject: wage determination ; human capital ; computers ; mixed models ; linked employer-employee data ; organizational practices of the firm

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Dostie, Benoît ; Trépanier, Mathieu
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2005

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21317
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