ICT, Internet and worker productivity

Irene Bertschek

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Abstract: This article provides a brief overview of the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) as a driver of productivity. In particular, it focuses on the diffusion of computers and the Internet at the workplace and discusses the relationship with wages, the task composition of occupations and labour productivity at the firm level.

Keywords: complementarities; c; econometric analysis; firm-level data; Internet; labour productivity; organisational change; production function; social networks; task-based approach; wage equation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 D24 J24 J31 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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