Does unmeasured ability explain the higher wages of new technology workers?

European Economic Review

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1489-1509

  Entorf, Horst ^a   Kramarz, Francis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b CREST   (France)

Author keywords

Ability; Computers; New technologies; Productivity; Wage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001335417     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(97)00064-0     Document Type: Article

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