Increased Wage Inequality via ICTs: Making a Case for Human Capital Investment

Increased Wage Inequality via ICTs: Making a Case for Human Capital Investment

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 investme...

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Main Authors: Loh, Yvonne Ai-Chi, Chib, Arul
Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
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Language:English
Published: 2017
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-856112020-03-07T12:15:48Z Increased Wage Inequality via ICTs: Making a Case for Human Capital Investment Loh, Yvonne Ai-Chi Chib, Arul Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information The Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD '16) Employment issues Funding 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 2017-09-27T02:53:31Z 2019-12-06T16:07:06Z 2017-09-27T02:53:31Z 2019-12-06T16:07:06Z 2016 Conference Paper Loh, Y. A.-C., & Chib, A. (2016). Increased Wage Inequality via ICTs: Making a Case for Human Capital Investment. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 32-. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85611 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43802 10.1145/2909609.2909615 en © 2016 The authors, published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, published by ACM on behalf of the authors. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document.  The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2909609.2909615]. 4 p. application/pdf
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Loh, Yvonne Ai-Chi
Chib, Arul
Increased Wage Inequality via ICTs: Making a Case for Human Capital Investment
description 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.
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title Increased Wage Inequality via ICTs: Making a Case for Human Capital Investment
title_short Increased Wage Inequality via ICTs: Making a Case for Human Capital Investment
title_full Increased Wage Inequality via ICTs: Making a Case for Human Capital Investment
title_fullStr Increased Wage Inequality via ICTs: Making a Case for Human Capital Investment
title_full_unstemmed Increased Wage Inequality via ICTs: Making a Case for Human Capital Investment
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