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Push-Pull Effects of the Information Technology Boom and Bust: Insight from Matched Employer-Employee Data

This paper examines the inflow and outflow of workers to different industries in Georgia during the information technology (IT) boom of the 1990s and the subsequent bust. According to the findings, workers in the software and computer services industry were much more likely to have been absent from the Georgia workforce prior to the boom but were no more likely than workers from other industries to have exited the workforce during the bust.

Geography