Information Technology and the Labor Market

A photograph of two engineers sitting before a massive computer.

Photo of one of the first computers, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Standard Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC). (Image courtesy of the NIST.)

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MIT Course Number

11.128 / 11.248 / 14.49

As Taught In

Spring 2005

Level

Undergraduate / Graduate

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Course Features

Course Highlights

This course features a full set of lecture notes, assignments, and readings, covering the range of topics included in this class, and offering an in-depth look at the impact of information technology and computers on the labor market.

Course Description

This course explores how information technology is reshaping different dimensions of the U.S. labor market: the way work is organized, the mix of occupations, the skills required to perform in an occupation, economy-wide labor productivity, and the distribution of wages.

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Frank Levy. 11.128 Information Technology and the Labor Market. Spring 2005. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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