This volume was prepared by Constantin Mang while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes a short introduction and four self-contained chapters that focus on ICT...

Das mobile Internet ist eine Technologie, die im privaten Einsatzbereich bereits eine hohe Verbreitung gefunden hat. Eine zunehmende Anzahl von Nutzern greift mit Smartphones und Tablet PCs mobil auf das Internet zu und verwendet mobile Anwendungen, so genannte Apps, zum Zugriff auf...

Mobile internet access allows for flexibility with respect to working time and working place. We analyse whether employees’ use of mobile internet access improves firms’ labour productivity. Our data set contains 2143 German firms and refers to the year 2014, when high-speed mobile internet...