Skill‐Biased Technological Change and Wage Inequality: Evidence from a Plant Retooling1
By R. Fernandez. American Journal of Sociology, 2001
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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Public Administration
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- The stress potential of social media in the workplace (2013, background): “In this changing environment, general task complexity increases (Fernandez 2001) because employees must constantly adapt to new software applications, 1 6 4 6 I N F O R M A T I O N , C O M M U N I C A T I O N & S O C I E T Y functionalities and workflows (Ragu-Nathan et al. 2008).”
- Make Money Surfing the Web? The Impact of Internet Use on the Earnings of U.S. Workers (2008, background): “Case studies of particular workplaces (see Fernandez 2001 for an excellent example) and interviews with human resources administrators could also be useful in this regard.”
- From Unequal Access to Differentiated Use: A Literature Review and Agenda for Research on Digital Inequality (2004, background): “The shift in findings appears to reflect a change in managerial practice, which may reflect the combination of more educated workers, a shift in managerial ideologies, weaker unions, and more capital-intensive labor processes (Fernandez 2001).”
- Social and Economic Returns to College Education in the United States (2012, background): “…things, works around tough problems, understands directions, documents tasks, misses less work, and puts in a more nearly full day on the job—in short, educated workers possess the cognitive and noncognitive skills that employers value (Fernandez 2001, Heckman et al. 2006, Goldin & Katz 2007).”
- Skills Mismatch in the Labor Market (2003, background): “In one of the most thorough and rigorous studies of skill change, Fernandez (2001) administered two waves of surveys and conducted extensive observation and interviews in a single factory before and after its relocation from an antiquated facility to a new, state of the art, automated plant.”
- How Firms Shape Income Inequality: Stakeholder Power, Executive Decision Making, and the Structuring of Employment Relationships (2015, background): “For instance, that technology has not led to rising income inequality in many countries may be due to how those technologies are adopted by firms (Fernandez, 2001).”