The employment effects of ICT investment: Evidence from the U.S. Commuting Zones

IF 4.2 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Yanchi Zou , Kun Li , Lilong He , Jiapei Guo
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Abstract

This paper estimates changes in ICT investment across Commuting Zones (CZs) in the United States from 2008 to 2019 and uses the Bartik instrumental variable method to assess the impact of ICT investment on local employment. The results indicate that ICT investment has a modest yet significantly positive effect on employment. The employment effects vary by industry and ICT type, with notably stronger positive effects for intellectual property-intensive (software-related) ICT investments. Furthermore, ICT investment has the largest positive employment effects in CZs with greater exposure to non-routine tasks, while in CZs with higher exposure to routine tasks, ICT investment exerts negative employment effects. These findings provide new insights into the employment effects of ICT investment in the United States over the past 15 years.
信息通信技术投资对就业的影响:来自美国通勤区的证据
本文估计了2008年至2019年美国通勤区ICT投资的变化,并使用Bartik工具变量法评估ICT投资对当地就业的影响。结果表明,信息通信技术投资对就业有适度但显著的正向影响。就业效应因行业和信息通信技术类型而异,对知识产权密集型(软件相关)信息通信技术投资的积极效应明显更强。此外,ICT投资对非常规任务暴露程度较高的cz的就业效应最大,而在常规任务暴露程度较高的cz, ICT投资对就业的影响为负。这些发现为过去15年美国ICT投资对就业的影响提供了新的见解。
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Economic Modelling
Economic Modelling ECONOMICS-
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期刊介绍: Economic Modelling fills a major gap in the economics literature, providing a single source of both theoretical and applied papers on economic modelling. The journal prime objective is to provide an international review of the state-of-the-art in economic modelling. Economic Modelling publishes the complete versions of many large-scale models of industrially advanced economies which have been developed for policy analysis. Examples are the Bank of England Model and the US Federal Reserve Board Model which had hitherto been unpublished. As individual models are revised and updated, the journal publishes subsequent papers dealing with these revisions, so keeping its readers as up to date as possible.
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