Racing with and against the machine: Changes in occupational skill composition in an Era of rapid technological advance

35th International Conference on Information Systems "Building a Better World Through Information Systems", ICIS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  MacCrory, Frank ^a   Westerman, George ^a   Alhammadi, Yousef ^b   Brynjolfsson, Erik ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Econometric analyses; Economic impacts; Empirical Research Study; Employment; Inequality; IT enabled change; Job characteristics; Skill biased technical change; Skills; Social issues

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

BIASED TECHNICAL CHANGE; COMPLEMENTARITY; ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; INEQUALITY; IT-ENABLED CHANGE; JOB CHARACTERISTICS; SKILLS; SOCIAL ISSUES;

EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 85107712541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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