Increased Wage Inequality via ICTs: Making a Case for Human Capital Investment
| Autor: | Arul Chib, Yvonne Ai-Chi Loh |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, The Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD '16) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Labour economics
Government media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Livelihood Investment (macroeconomics) Human capital 0506 political science Globalization Balance (accounting) State (polity) 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Economics Employment issues ICTS 050207 economics Funding media_common |
| Zdroj: | ICTD |
| Popis: | Globalisation and technological advances have affected workers' livelihoods. This study analysed how capital investment in ICTs at the workplace affected marginalised low wage workers in a large sample of firms (n=632) in Singapore. We found that social investment by the state for ICTs investments in workplaces led to a significant negative, albeit marginal, reduction in wage growth. We argue that these findings are supported by economic theory, and propose that government investment balance towards higher-order digital skills. We advocate for further research to measure the impact of worker ownership in enterprises on productivity growth, and hence equality objectives. Accepted version |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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