Computerisation and Wage Dispersion: An Analytical Reinterpretation

By T. Bresnahan. 1999

Subfields: Economics & Operations Research

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GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models (2023, background): “…(Bresnahan and Trajtenberg, 1995; Bresnahan et al., 1996, 2002; Lipsey et al., 2005; Dixon et al., 2021), a costly and time-consuming process involving the discovery of new business procedures (David, 1990; Bresnahan, 1999; Frey, 2019; Brynjolfsson et al., 2021; Feigenbaum and Gross, 2021).”
The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? (2017, background): “Indeed, over the past decades, computers have substituted for a number of jobs, including the functions of bookkeepers, cashiers and telephone operators (Bresnahan, 1999; MGI, 2013).”
Work skills in Britain, 1986-2001 (2002, background): “Over the past three decades, the advent of computers in the workplace has accompanied a fundamental realignment of the mix of skilled and unskilled workers (Bresnahan, 1999).”
Information technology and economic performance (2003, methodology): “Starting around 1993, more rigorous studies with larger samples were being re-ported by researchers [Brynjolfsson 1993, 1996; Bresnahan 1999; Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1995, 1996, 1998; Lichtenberg 1995].”
Intangible Assets: Computers and Organizational Capital (2002, background): “Ito (1996); Bresnahan and Greenstein (1997); Bresnahan (1999).”
The Skill Bias Effect of Technological and Organisational Change: Evidence and Policy Implications (2005, unknown): “increases demand for skilled workers Bresnahan et al. (2002)”
Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market (2002, unknown): “This last comparative static result is useful since Bresnahan (1999) and Autor, Levy and Murnane.”
The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration (2003, unknown): “Over the last three decades, computers have substituted for the calculating, coordinating, and communicating functions of bookkeepers, cashiers, telephone operators, and other handlers of repetitive information-processing tasks [Bresnahan 1999].”
Technical Change, Job Tasks, and Rising Educational Demands: Looking outside the Wage Structure (2006, background): “This limited substitution relationship (Bresnahan, 1999) between IT and occupational tasks shifts the demand for labor toward employees with higher levels of educational attainment who are presumed to have a comparative advantage in performing non-routine cognitive tasks.”
Skills at work, 1986 to 2006 (2007, background): “Over the past three decades, the advent of computers in the workplace has accompanied a fundamental re-alignment of the mix of skilled and unskilled workers (Bresnahan, 1999).”
Skill‐Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles (2002, unknown): “Indeed, Bresnahan (1999) has estimated that as early as 1971, onethird of U.S. workers were employed in establishments with mainframe computer access.”
Counterfactual decomposition of changes in wage distributions using quantile regression (2005, background): “The skill-biased technical change explanation was recently detailed by Bresnaham (1999), who stresses the organizational changes induced by the information distribution that would prevail if all workers had the same observed characteristics.”