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
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