ICT and productivity growth in the 1990s: Panel data evidence on Europe

Empirical Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 141-164

  Dahl, Christian M ^a,c   Kongsted, Hans Christian ^b,c   Sørensen, Anders ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Ctr for Economic and Bus Research   (Denmark)

^d Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Information and communications technology; Labor productivity; Panel data methods; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; PANEL DATA; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

EUROPE;

EID: 79551681020     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-010-0421-4     Document Type: Article

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