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| Author: | Dunne, T. Schmitz, J. Jr |
| Title: | Wages, employment structure and employer size-wage premia: their relationship to advanced-technology usage at US manufacturing establishments |
| Journal: | Economica
1995 : FEB, VOL. 62:245, p. 89-108 |
| Index terms: | PAY EMPLOYMENT MANUFACTURING |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A common theme in the labour economics literature is that use of advanced technology in production requires a skilled and educated workforce. Using a new survey of production processes at US manufacturing plants, the authors ask whether plants that employ advanced technology require a skilled workforce. The authors find that plants that use the most advanced technology pay the highest wages and employ the greatest fraction of non-production workers. The inclusion in standard wage regressions of variables that indicate the use of advanced technology reduces the size-wage premia by as much as 60% for some size categories. |
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