Uptake and Impacts of the ICTs in The Australian Economy: Evidence from Aggregate, Sectoral and Firm Levels
Conference Paper
Uptake and Impacts of the ICTs in The Australian Economy: Evidence from Aggregate, Sectoral and Firm Levels by Paul Gretton, Jyothi Gali and Dean Parham was presented to OECD in Paris on 9 December 2002.
This paper presents part of the work in progress on a joint research project of the Productivity Commission, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources, and the National Office for the Information Economy. The joint project was set up to provide an Australian contribution to the set of country studies on ICT and Business Performance that is being facilitated and co-ordinated by the OECD.
A shortened version of this paper, The effects of ICTs and complementary innovations on Australian productivity growth, was released in July 2003.
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 29 Kb)
Cover, Contents and Key points - 1 Introduction (PDF - 23 Kb)
- 2 Aggregate and Sectoral Evidence on Uptake and Performance Effects (PDF - 127 Kb)
2.1 The uptake of IT
2.2 Contributions to aggregate output and productivity growth
2.3 Uptake and performance effects at the sectoral level
2.4 Main findings - 3 Firm-Level Evidence: Up take of ICTs (PDF - 154 Kb)
3.1 Data sources
3.2 Take up to ICTs
3.3 General characteristics of forms using ICTs
3.4 Analysis of factors influencing the use of ICTs
3.5 Main findings - 4 Firm-level Evidence: Effects of ICTs on Performance (PDF - 153 Kb)
4.1 Characteristics of better performing firms
4.2 Framework for analysis of the influences of ICTs on firm productivity
4.3 Growth effects of ICT use
4.4 How other factors interacted with ICT use
4.5 A re-aggregate view
4.6 Main findings - 5 Conclusion (PDF - 41 Kb)
5.1 Main findings
5.2 Further interpretation of results - Appendix A Industry Sector Classification (PDF - 33 Kb)
- Appendix B ICT and Other Varibles from Business Longitudinal Survey (PDF - 47 Kb)
- Appendix C Explanatory Varibles included in the Growth Model (PDF - 35 Kb)
- Appendix D Econometric Issues and Sensitivity Testing (PDF - 40 Kb)
- References (PDF - 36 Kb)
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