TY - JOUR AU - Wong, Linda Yuet-Yee PY - 2008/12/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Computers and the Gender Wage Differential JF - Journal of Income Distribution® JA - JID VL - 17 IS - 3-4 SE - Articles DO - 10.25071/1874-6322.18131 UR - https://jid.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jid/article/view/18131 SP - 93 AB - In this article, I report results of an exploratory data analysis thatchallenge the conventional wisdom on the relation between computeruse and gender wage. Using the micro-economic data of 1984, 1993,and 2001, I find 1) the wage premium for females using computers atwork is about 19-26 per cent higher than males within the high bluecollarsector, and 2) college-educated females who use computers atwork earn a substantially higher wage than college-educated males.These results indicate that computers have re-structured work by deemphasizingphysical skill that benefits women, and that college- educatedwomen in the white-collar sector have unobserved female laborquality that could positively correlate with computer skill. ER -