Workers, Wages, and Technology
利用工厂数据，考察采用可编程控制器等新自动化技术如何影响工厂层面的工资、职业结构、教育水平和生产率，发现采用新技术的工厂在采用前后都拥有更高技能的劳动力。
This paper documents how plant-level wages, occupational mix, workforce education, and productivity vary with the adoption and use of new factory automation technologies such as programmable controllers, computer-automated design, and numerically controlled machines. Our cross-sectional results show that plants that use a large number of new technologies employ more educated workers, employ relatively more managers, professionals, and precision-craft workers, and pay higher wages. However, our longitudinal analysis shows little correlation between skill upgrading and the adoption of new technologies. It appears that plants that adopt new factory automation technologies have more skilled workforces both pre- and postadoption.