COMPUTER SKILLS AND WAGES* |
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Authors: | PAUL MILLER CHARLES MULVEY |
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Institution: | University of Western Australia |
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Abstract: | Data from the 1993 Survey of Training and Education show that 52 per cent of males and 60 per cent of females had at some time used a computer. An analysis using earnings functions reveals that computer usage is associated with a wage premium of between 12 and 16 per cent. Experiments show that omission of a variable recording computer usage from a wage equation will result in a bias of between 10 and 15 per cent in the estimated return to a year of schooling and similar distortion to the estimated return to experience. |
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