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What is Labour inputs

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Handbook of Research on Overcoming Digital Divides: Constructing an Equitable and Competitive Information Society
Is something that every worker provides to the production system. The two most important labour inputs are knowledge and manual work.
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Solving the Paradoxes of the Information Technology Revolution: Productivity and Inequality
Francesco D. Sandulli (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-699-0.ch023
Abstract
The research on the digital divide usually analyzes the differences between those who have access to information technology and those who have not. This approach typically considers information technology a homogeneous set of technologies. In this chapter, we will break this assumption establishing different subsets of information technologies according to their impact on the task productivity and the firm’s demand for high skilled labour. This new focus reveals that depending on the information technology used by the firm to perform a given task, the demand for high skilled and low skilled workers may vary and consequently their wages and income, producing in some cases a new and till now unobserved digital divide
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