The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find...

The paper analyses the relationship between two major challenges firms are faced to: using the potentials of information technologies (IT) as an enabler of process innovations on the one hand and an ageing workforce that might interfere these potentials on the other hand. Econometric results...

The paper provides empirical evidence for the causal impact of broadband Internet on the economic performance of German firms. Performance is measured in terms of labour productivity and realised process and product innovations. The analysis refers to the early phase of DSL expansion in Germany...

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 comprises 2460 German firms and refers to the year 2010, when mobile internet started its...

Modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been proliferating through the entire business sector over recent decades. This increasing digitalization is having a substantial impact on economic activity and is continuously changing the nature of production processes and our...

Immer wieder führten einzelne Unternehmen den technologischen Wandel an und wurden zu Weltmarktführern. Etablierte Unternehmen verschwanden oder mussten sich neu erfinden. Zeitgleich steigen Regionen national, aber auch weltweit auf, andere verlieren im Strukturwandel an Bedeutung. Heute sind...

Die Digitale Transformation gilt als eine der großen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit. Schnelles Internet, mobile Endgeräte, intelligente Softwarealgorithmen und die Speicherung und Verarbeitung großer Datenmengen verändern wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Prozesse. Die zahlreichen...

Social media open up new possibilities for firms to exploit information from various external sources. Does this information help firms to become more innovative? Combining firm-level survey data with information from firms' Facebook pages, we study the role that firms' and users' activities on...

Diese Studie entstand vor dem Hintergrund, dass digitale Dienstleistungen keine physische Präsenz des leistenden Unternehmens im Land des Leistungsempfängers erfordern und eine Registrierung der Anbieter auf Grund besonderer Besteuerungsverfahren (Mini‐One‐Stop‐Shop und VAT on eServices)...