An Internet retailer’s (e-tailer’s) outstanding virtual location enhances the probability of being noticed by potential … analysis, an e-tailer’s Internet search engine rank as well as its advertising activities in search engines serve as proxies …

internet use in Germany. Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use the exact weekly duration of internet use … to explain inequalities in internet intensity, explicitly controlling for non-users. Secondly, we use the frequencies of … five different internet applications to further investigate the determinants of the second-level digital divide. Thirdly …

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 …

characteristics on differences in the share of Internet use between German counties. In addition, it studies the influence of regional … factors as well as individual characteristics on the individual probability of becoming a new Internet user. Based on two … differences in Internet use. The results rather indicate that it is the different composition of the population between rural and …