(ICT)? We analyze this question based on a growth accounting approach at the level of final output. This approach traces … productivity improvements not within sectors but within value chains. It allows judging in a better way to what extent more or … better products have become available to final users, in particular consumers, as a result of the diffusion of ICT. A main …

This paper presents new calculations for the production and use of information and communications technology (ICT) in … Finland from 1975 to 2001. ICT-production has in the late 1990s had significant impacts on growth and labour productivity (LP …). As the increase in LP seems to have mushroomed only in the production of ICT, aggregate LP growth experienced a slowdown …