Young firms are central to productivity and job growth in the United States, yet they fail at high rates. We examine … higher productivity than older plants from IT services expenditure. The effect was more important in IT-intensive and high …

productivity. The effects are investigated both in isolation and in conjunction with the impact of ICT maturity on microdata in six … proportion of ICT-intensive human capital boosts productivity. This seems to confirm the case in favour of recruitment of highly …