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During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic progress. Looking at the labour indices calculated over the period from 1982 to 1996 one...
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of the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) on actual labor demand as well as on employment … authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper analyzes the impact of organizational change as well as the impact … all skill groups except for unskilled labor. New ICT and the share of training expenditures are primary forces behind OC …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and energy demand. We …. Using up to 2889 country-industry observations, we find that: (1) ICT capital is associated with a significant reduction in … energy demand. (2) This relationship differs with regard to different types of energy. ICT use is not significantly …
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Although information and communication technologies (ICT) consume energy themselves, they are considered to have the … data, this is the first large-scale empirical study on the relationship between ICT and energy intensity at the firm level …
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industries with varying degrees of ICT intensity. Intangible capital appears to be significantly more productive in ICT …-intensive sectors than in those that use little ICT. This finding remains robust across various alternative industry ICT intensity … measures and aligns with the prior firm-level studies that place emphasis on the complementary role of intangible assets in ICT …
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This paper analyzes the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth in developing … regressions confirm the positive relationship between ICT capital and GDP growth. The regressions for the subsamples of developing …, emerging and developed countries do not reveal statistically significant differences of the output elasticity of ICT between …
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ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICTintensive counterparts. Along with … investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by … the use of ICT. Are these firms also more resilient in times of crisis? We study this question by exploiting a novel and …
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We investigate whether the returns to mobile information and communication technology (ICT) in the workplace are …). Our regression analysis is based on a production function framework and exploits fine-grained firm survey data on ICT use … returns to mobile ICT are higher when TBW allows for discretion over when, where and how to perform work-related tasks. The …
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Driven by ICT, universities are changing in depth the nature and forms of learning processes, which are intended to … prepare students to a better entry into the labour market. In this paper, we focus on the evolution of students' use of ICT in … 2010 dataset of French university students. We show that students' involvement in the use of ICT increases their e …
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industries with varying degrees of ICT intensity. Intangible capital appears to be significantly more productive in ICT …-intensive sectors than in those that use little ICT. This finding remains robust across various alternative industry ICT intensity … measures and aligns with the prior firm-level studies that place emphasis on the complementary role of intangible assets in ICT …
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