Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by … induced by ICT are exclusively science-related and stem from fields where knowledge can be codified easily. In contrast, we …

capital, ascribes a prominent role to the automation hypothesis. Though information and communications (ICT) capital is a … few decades. A framework that distinguishes between ICT and non-ICT capital is empirically plausible and suggests that …

KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual … types of capital and allow for differences in the elasticities of substitution between labor, an aggregate of ICT and IP … capital, and traditional capital. The estimated elasticities of substitution between ICT and IP capital are strictly below one …

effects within phases of the technology life cycle. We also find that the negative impact of ICT investment on employment is …This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot … driven by the phase of the cycle when investment decelerates (and the technology is more mature). The phases of the …

IT investment in any sectors, it does significantly improve labor productivity for firms in manufacturing and in …

intensive countries reduce domestic R&D effort, in favour of an increase in foreign technology transfers, which suggests … complementarities in the knowledge assets of the MNE and the target firm as a reason for FDI. In contrast, consistent with technology … ; acquisition FDI ; knowledge complementarities ; technology sourcing …

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as …. When goods are differentiated enough, adoption occurs later than it is socially optimal. -- technology adoption …

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …