Information and communication technology and labour productivity growth: a production‐frontier approach
研究了1995-2019年24个OECD国家中信息通信技术对劳动生产率增长的正面影响，发现技术进步、非ICT资本和ICT资本变化是主要驱动因素，并确认ICT作为通用技术需配套组织变革才能充分发挥增长潜力。
Abstract This work provides evidence of the positive impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on the labour productivity growth of 24 countries, members of the OECD, from 1995 to 2019. Using a non-parametric production‐frontier approach, we decompose labour productivity growth into components attributable to technological change (shifts in the world production frontier), efficiency change (movements toward or away from the frontier), physical (non-ICT) capital change and ICT capital change (movements along the frontier). We find that, on average, the most significant improvement in worldwide labour productivity is attributable to technological change, non-ICT, and ICT capital change over 1995–2019. In addition, we confirm the role of ICT as a general-purpose technology that needs to implement complementary changes in business organisations to exploit its growth opportunities fully. Finally, we conclude that ICT capital contributes to convergence.