Digitalisation and productivity: In search of the holy grail. Firm-level empirical evidence from EU countries.

Autor/inn/en	Gal, Peter; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Renault, Theodore; Sorbe, Stéphane; Timiliotis, Christina
Institution	OECD / Economics Department
Titel	Digitalisation and productivity: In search of the holy grail. Firm-level empirical evidence from EU countries. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Digitalisierung und Produktivität: Auf der Suche nach empirischen Erkenntnissen auf Unternehmensebene aus den EU-Ländern.
Quelle	Paris (2019), 63 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	OECD Economics Department working papers. 1533
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1815-1973
DOI	10.1787/5080f4b6-en
Schlagwörter	Technologische Entwicklung; Unternehmen; Qualifikation; Auswirkung; Sektorale Verteilung; Internet; Europäische Union; Belgien; Dänemark; Estland; Finnland; Frankreich; Griechenland; Großbritannien; Irland; Italien; Lettland; Niederlande; Polen; Portugal; Schweden; Slowenien; Spanien; Türkei; Ungarn; Österreich
Abstract	"This paper assesses how the adoption of a range of digital technologies affects firm productivity. It combines cross-country firm-level data on productivity and industry-level data on digital technology adoption in an empirical framework that accounts for firm heterogeneity. The results provide robust evidence that digital adoption in an industry is associated to productivity gains at the firm level. Effects are relatively stronger in manufacturing and routine-intensive activities. They also tend to be stronger for more productive firms and weaker in presence of skill shortages, which may relate to the complementarities between digital technologies and other forms of capital (e.g. skills, organisation, or intangibles). As a result, digital technologies may have contributed to the growing dispersion in productivity performance across firms. Hence, policies to support digital adoption should go hand in hand with creating the conditions to enable the catch-up of lagging firms, notably by easing access to skills" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2019/3