the US productivity revival and in the evolving US-EU productivity gap. In Israel, the ICT sector grew very rapidly during … the success of the ICT sector. The main goal of this paper is to shed light on these twin developments. We use newly … constructed data on industry-level ICT investments between 1990 and 2003 and estimate production functions for manufacturing …

information and communication technology (ICT), on aggregate and sectoral labor productivity growth. Findings show that the broad … diffusion of ICT affected growth significantly after 2000, owing to technical change, substitution and capital deepening, and …

adoption of information and communication technology (ICT). The literature has emphasised complementarities in production … between ICT and internal restructuring as an important mechanism. We investigate the idea that increased use of ICT has …

This paper presents new calculations for the production and use of information and communications technology (ICT) in … Finland from 1975 to 2001. ICT-production has in the late 1990s had significant impacts on growth and labour productivity (LP …). As the increase in LP seems to have mushroomed only in the production of ICT, aggregate LP growth experienced a slowdown …

technologies (ICT) diffusion impact: new ICT definitions; recognition of business and government software expenditures as fixed … investment; hedonic price index. Nevertheless, there still does not exist any clear consensus about the magnitude of the ICT … the debate surrounding the measure of the ICT impact: 1) Are there any substantial total factor productivity (TFP) gains …

ICT countries; the Netherlands for their similarities with the above mentioned countries and France as a national … the importance of the ICT sector in these countries through a set of variables: the contribution of the ICT sector to GDP … the ICT sector to jobs growth and the ICT share in foreign trade and direct investment. We then describe the timing of the …