ICT Use and Productivity: A Synthesis from Studies of Australian Firms

Productivity Commission Working Paper

97 Pages Posted: 11 Oct 2004

Date Written: 2004

Abstract

The increased use of information and communications technology (ICT) has helped to raise Australia's productivity growth, according to a new Commission study. It has enabled firms to innovate in what they do and how they do it.

ICT Use and Productivity: A Synthesis from Studies of Australian Firms concludes that the stronger growth in the use of ICT in the second half of the 1990s added up to 1/2 a percentage point in the acceleration in annual labor productivity growth, principally as firms used additional ICT in place of additional labor.

Keywords: ABS, Australian bureau of statistics, business; DITR department of industry, tourism and resources, ICTs, information and communication technologies, OECD, productivity

JEL Classification: O0

Suggested Citation

Commission, Productivity, ICT Use and Productivity: A Synthesis from Studies of Australian Firms (2004). Productivity Commission Working Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=600942 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.600942

Productivity Commission (Contact Author)

Government of Australia

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35 Collins St.
Melbourne, Victoria, Victoria 3000
Australia

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