Computerization and Confidentiality

Productivity, Computerization, and Skill Change

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta E C O N O M I C R E V I E W Third Quarter 2002 R obert Solow was, perhaps, the first to point out the anomaly between productivity growth and computerization. Indeed, he quipped that we see computers everywhere except in the productivity statistics. As we shall see, industries that have had the greatest investment in computers (namely, financial services) have ra...

Computerization: Connecting the Dots

Inequality has social costs: it may engender political divisions, aggravate crime, and lead low-income families into poverty from which they or their children may not emerge. Dramatic shifts in relative well-being therefore demand attention. In the late. 1980s, economists discovered that the earnings of highand low-wage workers were rapidly diverging (Levy and Murnane 1992). Chart 1 plots earni...

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Technological Change, Computerization, and the Wage Structure

1 Overall wage inequality and educational wage differentials have expanded substantially in the United States over the past two decades. This widening of the wage structure has coincided with the rapid computerization of the work place. Thus, it is not surprising that many labor market analysts have tried to draw a causal connection between rising earnings inequality and increases in growth rat...

Skills , computerization , and earnings in the postwar