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COMPUTER SKILLS AND WAGES *
Author(s) -
MILLER PAUL,
MULVEY CHARLES
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
australian economic papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1467-8454
pISSN - 0004-900X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8454.1997.tb00824.x
Subject(s) - earnings , wage , variable (mathematics) , distortion (music) , economics , econometrics , labour economics , demographic economics , mathematics , computer science , telecommunications , accounting , mathematical analysis , amplifier , bandwidth (computing)
Data from the 1993 Survey of Training and Education show that 52 per cent of males and 60 per cent of females had at some time used a computer. An analysis using earnings functions reveals that computer usage is associated with a wage premium of between 12 and 16 per cent. Experiments show that omission of a variable recording computer usage from a wage equation will result in a bias of between 10 and 15 per cent in the estimated return to a year of schooling and similar distortion to the estimated return to experience.