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Digitalisation and productivity : in search of the holy grail : firm-level empirical evidence from EU countries

Gál, Peter; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Renault, Theodore; … - 2019

This paper assesses how the adoption of a range of digital technologies affects firm productivity. It combines cross-country firm-level data on productivity and industry-level data on digital technology adoption in an empirical framework that accounts for firm heterogeneity. The results provide...

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Benefitting from globalisation and technological change in Australia

Sila, Urban; Hemmings, Philip J. - 2019

Australia has seen large rises in living standards over the last decades across the whole of the income distribution. Technological change and international trade have contributed to this success, but have also brought structural change. Some industries have declined, while others flourished....

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Boosting productivity and living standards in Thailand

Koen, Vincent; Asada, Hidekatsu; Rahuman, Mohamed … - 2018

The Prosperity pillar of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for an integrated approach based on boosting productivity through diversification, upgrading technology and innovation, and increasing employment and entrepreneurship. Thailand needs to address all these challenges to...

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Digital technology diffusion : a matter of capabilities, incentives or both?

Andrews, Dan; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Timiliotis, Christina - 2018

Insufficient diffusion of new technologies has been quoted as one possible reason for weak productivity performance over the past two decades (Andrews et al., 2016). This paper uses a novel data set of digital technology usage covering 25 industries in 25 European countries over the 2010-16...

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Digital technology adoption, productivity gains in adopting firms and sectoral spill-overs : firm-level evidence from Estonia

Mosiashvili, Natia; Pareliussen, Jon - 2020

With a newly constructed firm-level dataset combining various survey- and registry data from Statistics Estonia, this paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct...

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Seizing the productive potential of digital change in Estonia

Azzopardi, Damien; Lenain, Patrick; Molnár, Margit; … - 2020

Technologies such as cloud computing, software to automate supplier- and customer relations, online platforms and artificial intelligence seem to offer a vast potential to boost productivity and living standards. However, aggregate productivity growth has declined sharply across the OECD over...

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Boosting productivity and preparing for the future of work in Germany

Yashiro, Naomitsu; Lehmann, Stephanie - 2018

This paper reviews policies to strengthen Germany’s productivity growth and prepare for changes in labour markets … reformed for the future of work. Germany enjoys a relatively high labour productivity level but productivity growth has been … arrangements. As in many countries, Germany saw a decline in the share of middle-skilled jobs in employment. A relatively high …

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