The Korean ICT industry has recently experienced low productivity growth. This study examines this decline of labor … productivity growth using the perspective of establishment dynamics. The establishment dataset covering one or more employees shows … industry has slowed and the contribution of entrants to productivity growth has rapidly declined, especially in its service …

ICT capital is an important driver of productivity growth. Using data from the EUKLEMS growth accounts, we show that … ICT has made smaller contributions to labour productivity growth in the EU-15 than in the US, both at the macro level and … productivity (TFP) growth – sharply declined in Europe and has remained weak since the mid-1990s whereas the US has seen …

The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro …, especially the United States, where such work sheds important light on particular aspects of productivity growth. The authors … identify areas for further research. -- Productivity …

We ask whether a weaker contribution of information and communication technologies (ICT) to productivity growth could … account for the productivity slowdown observed in Canada since the early 2000s. To answer this question, we consider several … methods capturing channels through which ICT could affect aggregate productivity growth. This includes an approach "à la Cette …

communication technology (ICT) in explaining productivity growth in the United Kingdom, 1970-2000. The dataset is for 34 industries … accounted for 13% of productivity growth in the market sector in 1970-79 (ie 0.47 percentage points out of 3.62% per annum … productivity (TFP) growth slowed down in 1995-2000, but we find econometric evidence that a boom in 'complementary investment', ie …

This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of …

productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …

into account. The data are used to study total factor productivity, labour and capital productivity developments in a … changes in labour services and the composition thereof, as drivers of value added and labour productivity growth. Significant …

As it takes time and effort to learn how to fully utilise new technology and realise its maximum potential productivity … gain, adoption of new technology tends to reduce productivity temporarily, even though the potential productivity gain in … potential explanation of the following two “productivity puzzles” reported in the Information Technology (IT) literature and in …

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 …, total factor productivity). Within the growth-accounting methodology, in Sect. 3, we discuss the U.S. - E.U. productivity …