Endogenous Skill Bias in Technology Adoption: City-Level Evidence from the IT Revolution
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The views in this paper are solely the responsibility of the author and should not be interpreted as reflecting the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. This paper was produced under the auspices of the Center for the Study of Innovation and Productivity within the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Endogenous Skill Bias in Technology Adoption: City-Level Evidence from the IT Revolution
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