This report surveys the literature on the employment impact of ICT. Two competing views - compensation and substitution … evidence, a consensus regarding the employment effect of ICT remains elusive. While there are many empirical studies on … technological progress in general, few are based on specific ICT indicators. Our review devotes equal space to each mainstream …

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 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 …

subsidy to labour and a simultaneous tax on entrepreneurs to curb excessive entry, with learning a subsidy-only policy can be …-increasing faster learning. …

employers for the cost of learning, both a progressive tax and a tax incentive on entry wages are found effective. The tax …