Computer Use and the Demand for Female Workers
利用CPS数据，研究发现计算机使用增加能解释女性劳动力需求增长的一半以上，尤其在技能型蓝领和低学历工人中效果显著。
Using data from the March and October CPS, the author investigates the effect of computers on the demand for female workers. One model suggests that computers, by changing skill requirements and the conditions of work--de-emphasizing physical skill--should favor women even if women have no advantage over men in using computers or in acquiring computer skills. Decompositions of the growth in women's employment and cross-industry-occupation regressions indicate that increases in computer use can account for over half of the growth in demand for female workers. Consistent with the hypothesis that differences in the physical requirements of jobs are responsible for these effects, increases in computer use have the greatest effect among skilled blue-collar workers and workers with less than a college education. The increase in computer use may contribute to an apparent substitutability between highly skilled women and less skilled men found in other research.