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Informatique et salaires : le cas de la France au travers de l'enquête sur les changements organisationnels et l'informatisation

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The strong tensions on the labour market met for these twenty last years have considerably accentuated the inequalities of wages to the detriment of the least qualified workers. One of the explanations of the increase in the inequalities on the labour maiket privileges a shock of the application for a job following the diffusion of the ICT in the economy. Thus, the introduction of newtechnologies into the production process or the operation of the companies would lead those to recruit worker more formed better with the detriment of the least qualified. But can one establish a link between the use of the ICT, in particular with computer, and the level of wage? The object of this article is to try to answer partly this question using an econometric study carried outstarting from French data matching of the characteristics of workers and companies. Without categorically rejecting the assumption of a technological bias, the results rather confirm those already found in Fiance starting from other data sources. If the users of computer tool profit well from a wagepremium this one remains in very modest proportions compared with the results obtained in the United States for example.