Broadband connected employees and labour productivity: A comparative analysis of 14 European countries based on distributed microdata access

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 613-629

  Hagsten, Eva ^a  

^a STATISTICS SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Broadband; Distributed data access; Firm behaviour; Ict; Labour productivity; Microdata linking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947236254     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10438599.2015.1105547     Document Type: Article

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