We use data on imports of computer equipment for a large sample of countries between 1 970 and 1990 to investigate the … determinants of computer-technology adoption. We find strong evidence that computer adoption is associated with higher levels of … human capital and with manufacturing trade openness vis-a-vis the OECD. We also find evidence that computer adoption is …

This research investigates product life cycles in the commercial mainframe computer market. We show that empirical …

skill upgrading in the 1970s and 1980s versus the 1960s are those with greater growth in employee computer usage, more … computer capital per worker and larger investment as a share of total investment. The results suggest that the spread of … computer technology may `explain' as much as 30-50% of the increase in the rate of growth of the relative demand for more …

In this paper, we make a first attempt to explore the relationship between computer use and productivity in French … manufacturing and services industries. We match information on computer utilization in the work place collected at the employee … samples), our measure of firm computer use is subject to important sampling errors, and hence our estimates of computer …

This paper examines trends in computer usage and the effect on productivity growth for a sample of federal government … per employee with data from a marketing research firm, Computer Intelligence (CI), on the growth in per capita computer … assets for a sample of 44 federal agencies. The data show that computer usage increased dramatically and that there was a …