TY  - JOUR
AU  - Allen,Steven G.
TI  - Technology and the Wage Structure
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5534
PY  - 1996
Y2  - April 1996
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5534
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5534.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Steven G. Allen
Jenkins Graduate School of Management
NC State University
2124 Nelson Hall
Raleigh, NC  27695-7229
Tel: 919/515-6941
Fax: 919/515-5073
E-Mail: STEVE_ALLEN@NCSU.EDU
AB  - This paper reports direct evidence on how recent changes in technology are related to  changes in wage differentials by schooling, experience, and gender.  Wage differentials by industry in the full- year 1979 and 1989 Current Population Surveys are related to R&D intensity, usage of high-tech capital, recentness of technology, growth in total factor productivity, and growth of the capital-labor ratio.  Returns to schooling are larger in industries that are intensive in R&D and high-tech capital.  Technology variables account for 30 percent of the increase in the wage gap between college and high school graduates.
ER  -