<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bresnahan, Timothy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brynjolfsson, Erik</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hitt, Lorin</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm-level Evidence</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1999</style></year></dates><urls><related-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://siepr.stanford.edu/papers/pdf/98-05.pdf</style></url></related-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"></style></number><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"></style></section><edition><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"></style></edition><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"></style></publisher><orig-pub><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"></style></orig-pub><reprint-edition><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"></style></reprint-edition><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"></style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"></style></volume><num-vols><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"></style></num-vols><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"></style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"></style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"></style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Recently, the relative demand for skilled labor has increased dramatically. We
investigate one of the causes, skilled-biased technical change.
Advances in information technology (IT) are among the most powerful
forces bearing on the economy. Employers who use IT often make
complementary innovations in their organizations and in the services
they offer. Our hypothesis is that these co-inventions by IT users
change the mix of skills that employers demand. Specifically, we test
the hypothesis that is a cluster of complementary changes involving IT,
workplace organization and services that is the key skill-biased
technical change. We examine new firm-level data liking several
indicators of IT use, workplace organization, and the demand for
skilled labor. In both a short-run factor demand framework and a
production function framework, we find evidence for complementarity. IT
use is complementary to a new workplace organization which includes
broader job responsibilities for line workers, more decentralized
decision-making and more self-managing teams. In turn, both IT and that
new organization are complements with worker skill, measured in a
variety of ways. Further, the managers in our survey believe that IT
increases skill requirements and autonomy among workers in their firms.
Taken together, the results highlight the roles of both IT and
Itenabled organizational change as important components of the
skill-biased technical change. 

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