In this paper, we make a first attempt to explore the relationship between computer use and productivity in French … manufacturing and services industries. We match information on computer utilization in the work place collected at the employee … samples), our measure of firm computer use is subject to important sampling errors, and hence our estimates of computer …

This paper examines trends in computer usage and the effect on productivity growth for a sample of federal government … per employee with data from a marketing research firm, Computer Intelligence (CI), on the growth in per capita computer … assets for a sample of 44 federal agencies. The data show that computer usage increased dramatically and that there was a …

Are the large measured wage differentials associated with on-the-job computer use productivity gains or the result of … estimated wage differentials associated with computer use in Germany are very similar to the U.S. differential. Second, using … interpretation of the computer-use wage differential as reflecting productivity effects arising from the introduction of computers in …

This paper examines whether employees who use a computer at work earn a higher wage rate than otherwise similar workers … who do not use a computer at work. The analysis primarily relies on data from the Current Population Survey and the High … be correlated with both job-related computer use and earnings. The estimates suggest that workers who use computers on …

Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home. We test … computers to students. Although computer ownership and use increased substantially, we find no effects on any educational …

retail stores using a new data source on the computer purchase behavior of more than 20,000 people. To estimate the degree of … for a computer in a retail store as a function of characteristics. The coefficients on the city fixed effects in these … type of customer and type of computer. Conditional on buying a computer, the overall elasticity of buying remotely with …