Computer use and wage returns: The complementary roles of it-related human capital and nonroutine tasks

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Dey, Debabrata ^a   Fan, Ming ^a   Peng, Gang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer use; Human capital; Nonroutine tasks; Wage returns

Indexed keywords

BLACK BOXES; COMPUTER USE; HUMAN CAPITALS; NONROUTINE TASKS; POPULATION SURVEY; SKILL SETS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

WAGES;

EID: 81455128758     PISSN: 2158656X     EISSN: 21586578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1929916.1929922     Document Type: Article

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