To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a …), infrastructure indicators (telephone density, electricity consumption), telecommunications pricing measures, and regulatory quality … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density …

Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We … contributing to the global digital divide. We find evidence indicating that income, human capital, the youth dependency ratio …

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a …), infrastructure indicators (telephone density, electricity consumption), telecommunications pricing measures, and regulatory quality … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density …

Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We … contributing to the global digital divide. We find evidence indicating that income, human capital, the youth dependency ratio …

In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital … services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic … production function is the analytical starting point for our interdependent analysis of output, use of telecommunications and …

Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods … limitations. The first approach involves searching for exogenous sources of variation in the access to fast Internet or specific … natural or quasi-experiments for identifying the causal impact of high-speed Internet or specific social media. This …

This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. We combine data … on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet …