How big a boost to long run growth can countries expect from the ICT revolution? I use the results of growth accounting …-sector model is required because of the very rapid rate at which the prices of ICT products have fallen in the past and are … expected to fall in the future. According to the two-sector model, the main boost to growth comes from ICT use, not ICT …

Computers and ICT have changed the way we live and work. The latest WERS 2004 provides a snapshot of how using ICT at …

stylised facts are considered: globalisation, information technology, and competition. Globalisation and information technology …

We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … that ICT capital played an increasingly important, and in the 1990s the dominant, role in accounting for labour … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric …

model which suggests that improvements in ICT will increase the dispersion of economic activity across cities making city …

other structural changes over the same period such as increased globalisation and usage of ICT. I argue that the increase …. Surprisingly however, the positive correlation between ICT and net entry share – a main result of earlier studies – becomes more …

productivity. The “Solow Paradox” of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth … estimates suggest a much larger impact of ICT on productivity than would be expected from the standard neoclassical model that …

We test the hypothesis that information and communication technologies (ICT) “polarize” labor markets, by increasing … on the US, Japan, and nine European countries from 1980–2004, we find that industries with faster ICT growth shifted … demand from middle educated workers to highly educated workers, consistent with ICT-based polarization. Trade openness is …