Mobile and more productive? Firm-level evidence on the productivity effects of mobile internet use at the early stage of diffusion

Irene Bertschek and Thomas Niebel

No 13-118, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: Mobile internet access allows for flexibility with respect to working time and working place. We analyse whether employees' use of mobile internet access improves firms' labour productivity. Our data set comprises 2460 German firms and refers to the year 2010, when mobile internet started its diffusion process to firms on a large scale. The econometric analysis shows that firms' labour productivity significantly increases with the share of employees with mobile internet access. However, an instrumental variable approach reveals that mobile internet use does not cause higher labour productivity.

Keywords: Mobile Internet; Labour Productivity; Firm-Level Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 L20 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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