This article offers a new account of rising inequality by providing a new explanation for the observed correlation between computerization and earnings. The argument is that as computers transformed work into a more knowledge-intensive activity, occupations located at critical junctions of information flow have gained greater structural power, and thereby higher wages. Combining occupational measures for location in the information flow based on the Occupational Information Network with the 1979–2016 Current Population Surveys, the analyses reveal a rising wage premium for occupations with greater access to and control of information, independent of the spectrum of skills related to computerization.

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为什么计算机化加剧了工资不平等？信息、职业结构性权力和工资不平等

本文通过对观察到的计算机化与收入之间的相关性提供新的解释，提供了不平等加剧的新解释。其论点是，随着计算机将工作转变为知识密集程度更高的活动，位于信息流关键节点的职业获得了更大的结构性权力，从而获得了更高的工资。将基于职业信息网络的信息流中位置的职业测量与 1979-2016 年当前人口调查相结合，分析显示，对于信息获取和控制能力更强的职业，工资溢价不断上升，而与相关技能范围无关。电脑化。