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Computerization and Structural Change
Author(s) -
Wolff Edward N.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4991.00040
Subject(s) - technical change , economics , econometrics , investment (military) , cross sectional data , structural change , capital (architecture) , capital investment , technological change , macroeconomics , geography , finance , productivity , archaeology , politics , political science , law
I develop three measures of structural change on the basis of U.S. data: changes in occupational composition, changes in input–output technical coefficients, and changes in capital coefficients. Using pooled cross‐section, time‐series data for 44 industries over the period from 1970 to 1990, I find that computer investment per worker has had a positive and significant effect on the degree of occupational change and changes in input and capital coefficients.