Employment transitions and computer use of older workers

Federico Biagi (1) , Danilo Cavapozzi (1) , Raffaele Miniaci (2)

1 Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
2 Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche

Our empirical analysis studies the impact of computer use on out of employment transitions of older workers, disentangling the effect of using a PC at work from that of being PC literate. Data are drawn from the 2000, 2002 and 2004 waves of the Bank of Italy Survey on Household Income and Wealth. We provide empirical evidence that, even controlling for a wide set of covariates, older employees who use a PC at work have a higher probability of remaining employed in the future. However, our results also indicate that, once PC literacy is controlled for, the use of a PC at work decreases only marginally the risk of becoming not employed (i.e. the effect is smaller than the one registered when we do not control for PC literacy)

Mots clés: Social Sciences & Humanities

Domaines: Économie et finance quantitative [q-fin]

Federico Biagi, Danilo Cavapozzi, Raffaele Miniaci. Employment transitions and computer use of older workers. Applied Economics, 2011, 45 (06), pp.687-696. ⟨10.1080/00036846.2011.610748⟩. ⟨hal-00741504⟩