Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cacilia; Neidhoefer, Guido; Zierahn-Weilage, Ulrich
署名单位：
Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg; Leibniz Association; Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW); Utrecht University
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
ISSN/ISSBN：
0734-306X
DOI：
10.1086/727490
发表日期：
2025
页码：
503-543
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摘要：
This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by increasing the returns to skills relative to the returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, the introduction of computer technologies improved the access to technology-adopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents and reduced their wage penalty within these occupations. We also show that this significantly contributed to a decline in the overall wage penalty experienced by workers from disadvantaged parental backgrounds over this time period. Competing mechanisms, such as skill-specific labor supply shocks and skill upgrading, do not explain these findings.
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