The Impact Of Information Technology On High-Skilled Labor In Services: Evidence From Firm-Level Panel DataFootnote^∗

^∗The initial work for this paper was conducted when the second author was a visiting scholar at the ZEW during the summer of 1998. Financial assistance from the ZEW is gratefully acknowledged. The first author acknowledges financial support from the German Science Foundation's program ‘Industrial Economics and Input Markets’. The authors would like to thank Thomas Bauer. Badi Baltagi. Herbert Buscher, Francois Laisney, Georg Licht, Joachim Moller, Steve Nickell, and Viktor Steiner for their useful comments. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the 1999 ZEW Summer School Workshop. the 1999 EALE conference in Regensburg and the 1999 Meetings of the Verein fur Sozialpolitik in Mainz We have greatly benefited from comments received at these conferences

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