Are ICT Displacing Workers? Evidence from Seven European Countries

Smaranda Pantea, Federico Biagi () and Anna Sabadash ()
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Federico Biagi: European Commission JRC, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en

No 2014-07, JRC Working Papers on Digital Economy from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: This paper examines whether ICT substitute labour and reduce the demand for labour. We used firm-level comparable data separately for firms in manufacturing, services and ICT-producing sectors from seven European countries. We adopted a common methodology and applied it to a unique dataset provided by the ESSLait Project on Linking Microdata. We controlled for unobservable time-invariant firm-specific effects and we found no evidence of a negative relationship between intensity of ICT use and employment growth. We read this as an indication that ICT use is not reducing employment among ICT using firms.

Keywords: Labour Demand; Technological Change; ICT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J24 L86 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 72 pages
Date: 2014-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-ict, nep-lab and nep-tid
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