appears unaffected: investment rates are flat, and productivity has slowed down. We investigate whether measurement issues … as intermediate consumption. Thus they do not count as either GDP or investment. We ask how treating such spending as … investment affects some key macro variables, namely, market sector gross value added (MGVA), business investment, capital and …

learning significantly improves the cost efficiency gain in the gross value created, total credit created, and investment …

sector. Using data from a survey of innovative activities in services we show that investment in information technology (IT …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be …, data of the German IT survey point towards the need to differentiate between types of IT investment. It is shown that …

empirical evidence indicates that firms with a higher IT investment to sales ratio employ a larger fraction of high …-skilled workers. The relationship between IT investment and medium-skilled labour is rather weak while the unskilled labourshare is … negatively related to the IT investment to sales ratio. U sing a translog production function to assess the productivity of …

This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share and the level of investment in information … firms with a higher IT investment to output ratio employ a larger fraction of high-skilled workers. However, the size of the …