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Computerisation and Wage Dispersion

An Analytical Reinterpretation

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ID9715153
AuthorsTimothy F Bresnahan (0000-0003-2854-7035, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume109
Issue456
Pages390-415
Publication date1999-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Economic Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1468-0297.00442
OpenAlexW1499269689
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited18

Computerisation and Wage Dispersion: An Analytical Reinterpretation Timothy F. Bresnahan Timothy F. Bresnahan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar I thank the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for its generous support of the Stanford Computer Industry Project and the Stanford Center for Economic Policy Research. Ron Borzekowski, Mike Mazzeo, Natalia Duncan, Anne Royalty and Fei Ye have offered very welcome help and comments, and seminar comments at SCIP, the NBER summer institute, and from the CEPR advisory board have been very useful. The (longer) summer 1997 version of this paper is available at http://timb.stanford.edu/research/c&w01.pdf Author Notes The Economic Journal, Volume 109, Issue 456, 1 June 1999, Pages 390–415, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00442 Published: 25 December 2001

Bureaucracy · Economics · Efficiency wage · Inequality · Labour economics · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Reinterpretation · Wage · Wage dispersion · Economic Policies and Impacts · ICT Impact and Policies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Law

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