Information Technology and Australia’s Productivity Surge

Dean Parham, Paul Roberts and Haishun Sun
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Dean Parham: Productivity Commission
Paul Roberts: Productitivity Commission
Haishun Sun: Productivity Commission

Development and Comp Systems from EconWPA

Abstract: This paper finds that the rapid update of information and communication technologies contributed to Australia’s strong productivity performance in the 1990s and the contribution to labour productivity growth was at least as strong as it was in the US. Australia generated a productivity improvement of 1.1 per cent from information and communication technology use and other factors.

Keywords: information; technology; -; communications; -; productivity; -; IT; -; ICT; -; capital; -; computer; -; growth; accounting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O P (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev
Date: Written 2001-10-19
Note: Type of Document - Word 97; prepared on IBM PC; to print on HP; pages: 152 ; figures: included
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