In this report we review the literature on the relationship between ICT and productivity. In Sect. 1 we discuss in … broad terms the theoretical relationship between ICT and productivity, while in Sect. 2 we present the growth accounting … methodology, which tries to measure the contributions to growth from difference sources (ICT and non ICT capital, human capital …

This paper examines whether ICT substitute labour and reduce the demand for labour. We used firm-level comparable data … separately for firms in manufacturing, services and ICT-producing sectors from seven European countries. We adopted a common … unobservable time-invariant firm-specific effects and we found no evidence of a negative relationship between intensity of ICT use …

methodology developed in Pellizzari and Fichen (2013). We define every worker as well-matched if her ICT skills fall in between …

This report has three sections and a key feature of our empirical analysis is the use of several types of advanced ICT … presents new empirical evidence regarding the impact of ICT/E-commerce activities on industry performance in Europe measured as … the period 2002-2010. The main result of this section is that the increase in ICT/e-commerce activities over time has not …

methodology developed in Pellizzari and Fichen (2013). We define every worker as well-matched if her ICT skills fall in between …

This report consists of three studies. The first study presents new empirical evidence on the impact of ICT … evidence on the impact of ICT/e-commerce indicators on the skill intensity measured as the share of workers with a university … degree. The third study investigates whether and to what extent ICT/e-commerce activities are enablers of innovation …

In this report we review the literature on the relationship between ICT and productivity. In Sect. 1 we discuss in … broad terms the theoretical relationship between ICT and productivity, while in Sect. 2 we present the growth accounting … methodology, which tries to measure the contributions to growth from difference sources (ICT and non ICT capital, human capital …

This paper examines whether ICT substitute labour and reduce the demand for labour. We used firm-level comparable data … separately for firms in manufacturing, services and ICT-producing sectors from seven European countries. We adopted a common … unobservable time-invariant firm-specific effects and we found no evidence of a negative relationship between intensity of ICT use …

specific ICT sub-sectors – namely web services, industrial robotics and display technologies –and to explore the role of … government policies in Europe’s future needs for innovation in information and communication technologies (ICT) through a …