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Bresnahan, Brynjolfsson, Hitt, “Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm-Level Evidence” (1999-05) bears on M09. The authors summarise the economics literature of the 1990s: the unexplained shift in labour demand is attributed to skill-biased technical change, which many link to information technology. Copy claim link
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Date 1999-05 · publication Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element Describes economists' consensus on technology and wage inequality, not the state of research on machine intelligence. Tier Tier 1. NBER working paper (core venue). Scope and limits The authors' characterisation of the literature, with citations; context for how economists framed computers before AI became a topic.
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Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm-Level Evidence ↗ NBER Working Paper 7136 · 1999-05
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Source excerpt “Economists have concluded that this residual must reflect a "skill-biased technical change" in the way goods and services are produced in the economy” Location in source pdf page 3; section 1.1, Introduction (printed p. 1)
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Source details and check notes Authors Timothy Bresnahan; Erik Brynjolfsson; Lorin Hitt Version Full text (PDF without NBER cover page). Current copy retrieved directly on 2026-10-09; no archive capture, so earlier bytes are not authenticated. SHA-256 9fb812b5d73898ed75b3fc03f073bba13cc65ca0f005f779d9e915b2634838bb. Journal version not retrieved. Bresnahan, T. F., Brynjolfsson, E., & Hitt, L. M. (2002). Information technology, workplace organization, and the demand for skilled labor: Firm-level evidence. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117(1), 339–376. https://doi.org/10.1162/003355302753399526 Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-09 Language English (en) Attribution Timothy Bresnahan, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lorin Hitt, “Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm-Level Evidence”, NBER Working Paper 7136, 1999-05. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage M09-34 (research/economics-mainstream). The quotation (23 words) matched the retrieved current copy (SHA-256 9fb812b5d73898ed75b3fc03f073bba13cc65ca0f005f779d9e915b2634838bb) in the pack's verification. Re-checked at admission on 2026-10-14 against a copy retrieved that day. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Crossref record for doi:10.3386/w7136 (issued 1999-05); the retrieved PDF has no NBER cover page. Journal version: QJE 117(1), 2002 (census), not retrieved. Third author given name from Crossref. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated.
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