Empirical Studies on the Impacts of ICT Usage in Europe

This report consists of three studies. The first study presents new empirical evidence on the impact of ICT/e-commerce activities on industry performance measured as employment and labour productivity growth. The second study presents new empirical evidence on the impact of ICT/e-commerce indicators on the skill intensity measured as the share of workers with a university degree. The third study investigates whether and to what extent ICT/e-commerce activities are enablers of innovation activities. The data consists of micro-aggregated data on firms drawn from the production, ICT and CIS survey.

Authors:

FALK Martin, BIAGI Federico