Earnings on the information technology roller coaster
Subtitle: insight from matched employer-employee data
By: Julie L. Hotchkiss, M. Melinda Pitts, and John C. Robertson.
Contributors: Pitts, M. Melinda.; Robertson, John C.; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Series: Working paper series / Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta ;; 2005-11; Working paper series (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta : Online) ;; 2005-11.
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Atlanta, Ga.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Information technology -- Economic aspects.; Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on.; Labor productivity.; Industrial productivity -- Europe -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "This paper uses matched employer-employee data for the state of Georgia to examine workers' earnings experience through the information technology (IT) sector's employment boom of the mid-1990s and its bust in the early 2000s. The results show that even after controlling for individual characteristics before the sector's boom, transitioning out of the IT sector to a non-IT industry generally resulted in a large wage penalty. However, IT service workers who transitioned to a non-IT industry still fared better than those who took a non-IT employment path. For IT manufacturing workers, there is no benefit to having worked in tech, likely because of the nontransferability of manufacturing experience to other industries"--Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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