ICT Use and Productivity: A Synthesis from Studies of Australian Firms

Productivity Commission

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Abstract: The increased use of information and communications technology (ICT) has helped to raise Australia’s productivity growth, according to a new Commission study. It has enabled firms to innovate in what they do and how they do it. ICT Use and Productivity: A Synthesis from Studies of Australian Firms concludes that the stronger growth in the use of ICT in the second half of the 1990s added up to 1/2 a percentage point in the acceleration in annual labour productivity growth, principally as firms used additional ICT in place of additional labour.

Keywords: ABS; Australian Bureau of Statistics; Business; DITR Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources; ICTs; Information and Communication Technologies; OECD; Productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O P (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: Written 2004-10-05
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