{"id":17929,"date":"2026-02-28T18:13:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=17929"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:13:26","slug":"it-investment-and-the-earnings-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/it-investment-and-the-earnings-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"IT investment and the earnings distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"mailto:research.highlights@aeapubs.org\">Tyler Smith<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Economists have studied the relationship between technological change and labor market inequality for decades, but most of that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/economics.mit.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/Skills%2C%20Tasks%20and%20Technologies%20-%20Implications%20for%20.pdf\">research<\/a>&nbsp;has examined trends at the national level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/articles?id=10.1257\/mac.20220306\">paper in the&nbsp;<em>American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics<\/em><\/a>, authors&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.janeeckhout.com\/\">Jan Eeckhout<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christophhedtrich.com\/\">Christoph Hedtrich<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/rbpinheiro\/\">Roberto Pinheiro<\/a>&nbsp;take a different approach by examining how information technology adoption and job displacement vary across metropolitan areas with different housing costs. Their findings reveal that technological change does not affect all places equally and that local housing prices play an important role in determining which jobs disappear and where.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: www.aeaweb.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/research\/it-urban-polarization-us\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Smith Economists have studied the relationship between technological change and labor market inequality for decades, but most of that&nbsp;research&nbsp;has examined trends at the national level. In a&nbsp;paper in the&nbsp;American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, authors&nbsp;Jan Eeckhout,&nbsp;Christoph Hedtrich,&nbsp;Roberto Pinheiro&nbsp;take a different approach by examining how information technology adoption and job displacement vary across metropolitan areas with different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-36","category-18","category-proposals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17930,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions\/17930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}