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024	8		_a10.1596/1813-9450-8298
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100	1		_aIacovone, Leonardo.
245	1	0	_aICT Adoption and Wage Inequality _h[electronic resource] : _bEvidence from Mexican Firms / _cIacovone, Leonardo.
260			_aWashington, D.C. : _bThe World Bank, _c2018.
300			_a1 online resource (70 p.)
520	3		_aThis paper uses a panel of firms from the Mexican Economic Censuses and analyzes at the microeconomic level how labor markets adapt to the adoption of information and communication technologies. The paper studies the effects of the adoption of information and communication technologies over the labor structure of the firm and wages. Thus, it assesses whether increasing the use of information and communication technologies leads to an increasing demand for skilled relative to low-skilled labor, and, thus, analyzes its effects on the wage gap between the two groups. The results of this analysis show that there is indeed an effect of the adoption of information and communication technologies over the demand for higher-skilled workers. However, for the manufacturing and services sectors, instead of increasing the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers, the wage gap decreases. The results for the manufacturing sector appear to be driven by an increasing sophistication of blue-collar workers due to the organizational adjustments derived from the adoption of information and communication technologies.
650		4	_aICT
650		4	_aInequality
650		4	_aInformation and Communication Technologies
650		4	_aJobs
650		4	_aLabor Demand
650		4	_aMarketing
650		4	_aPrivate Sector Development
650		4	_aPrivate Sector Development Law
650		4	_aPrivate Sector Economics
650		4	_aSkills
650		4	_aSocial Protections and Labor
650		4	_aTechnical Change
650		4	_aTechnology
650		4	_aTechnology Industry
650		4	_aTechnology Innovation
650		4	_aWages
700	1		_aIacovone, Leonardo.
700	1		_aPereira-Lopez, Mariana.
776	1	8	_aPrint Version: _iIacovone, Leonardo. _tICT Adoption and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Mexican Firms _dWashington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2018.
830		0	_aPolicy research working papers.
830		0	_aWorld Bank e-Library.
856	4	0	_uhttp://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-8298
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