The Internet and Local Wages: A Puzzle †

By Chris M. Forman, Avi Goldfarb, Shane M. Greenstein. 2012

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The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization (2014, neutral): “In our main econometric speci cations, we take the unweighted average across all four z-scores as our primary measure of overall decentralization18.”
The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet (2015, background): “Another example is Forman, Goldfarb, and Greenstein (2012), showing that internet investments correlate with wage and employment growth in some but not all U.S. counties.”
The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa (2019, neutral): “…on advanced Internet technology in rich countries find positive correlations with local wage levels (see e.g. Czernich. et al. , 2011; OECD, 2013), and mixed results for the relative wage effects in richer versus poorer U.S. counties (Forman et al. , 2012; Champion et al. , 2012; Atasoy, 2013).”
More bits - more bucks? Measuring the impact of broadband internet on firm performance (2013, positive): “The results show that after having introduced broadband Internet, GDP increased by 2.7 to 3.9 percent.”
Rural development in the digital age: A systematic literature review on unequal ICT availability, adoption, and use in rural areas (2017, background): “The general conclusion is that advanced telecommunication technologies contribute to GDP growth through investment in the infrastructure itself and through productivity improvement (Ford and Koutsky, 2005; Van Gaasbeck, 2008; Capello et al., 2011; Greenstein and McDevitt, 2011; Forman et al., 2012; ”
Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey (2020, neutral): “Other notable works using CITDB include Bresnahan et al. (2002), Forman et al. (2002), Brynjolfsson and Hitt (2003), Forman et al. (2009), Mahr (2010), Bloom et al. (2012), Forman et al. (2012), and Kretschmer et al. (2012).”
The Employment and Wage Impact of Broadband Deployment in Canada (2015, neutral): “In comparison, the time periods considered in Forman et al. (2012) and Kolko (2012) are relatively short: 1995-2000 and 1999-2006.”
Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring (2016, neutral): “[22] Forman, Chris, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein.”