Assessing the regional digital divide across the European Union-27

Cuervo, María Rosalía Vicente; López, Ángela Atienza

doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2010.12.013

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“…From this perspective, the findings indicate that on average, the countries in the sample experienced a declining level of capacity utilization of ICT technologies rather than a technological regress (Angeriz, McCombie, & Roberts, 2006). Thus, the analysis confirms the GPT nature of ICT technologies, which require complementary investments to attain productivity benefits (Basu & Fernald, 2007;Colombo & Grilli, 2007;Vicente & Lopez, 2011). The USA is the only national economy that marginally suffered from the negative effect of TECH.…”

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ICT capital and labour productivity growth: A non-parametric analysis of 14 OECD countries

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Mancuso

2012

Telecommunications Policy

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This paper uses a new set of country data for 14 countries, members of the OECD, and a nonparametric approach to provide new evidence on the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on labour productivity growth between 1995 and 2005. For the first time, in the present paper a bootstrap approach for the decomposition of labour productivity change, proposed by Kumar and Russell (2002), is employed. This approach permits to conduct statistical inference on the parameters of interest, and to analyse the effects of ICT technologies on capital accumulation. The results confirm the role of ICT as a general purpose technology that needs organizational and business process changes to fully exploit its growth opportunities. The paper also finds out, by applying a non-parametric test, that ICT technologies positively contribute to the generation of convergence clubs in the evolution of labour productivity. Finally, the empirical evidence offers some basic guidance for future policy intervention in supporting ICT capital investments.

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ICT capital and labour productivity growth: A non-parametric analysis of 14 OECD countries

Ceccobelli

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2012

Telecommunications Policy

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“…Evidently, the Internet has helped regions with a strong economy to grow even more quickly, by increasing the value of locally accessible information and overall content demand, attracting production factors and enhancing locational advantages [7,32,33]. The areas with the best Internet access seem to have had stronger economic growth and formed new cores.…”

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Internet Access, Spillover and Regional Development in China

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As Internet access grows at different rates across regions, the Internet has had variable effects on regional economies through agglomeration and spillover effects. This paper uses province-level panel data from 2000 to 2013 to study inequality in Internet access, its spatial effect on regional economies in China and the channels through which the spillover effects are most evident. We find that the Internet has dispersed quickly from core cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, to coastal provinces; and has had increasingly significant effects on neighboring regions. However, the Internet speed is still comparatively low outside the core cities. We then use endogenous growth models to quantify the effect of Internet access on regional economies. Our results show that, while Internet dispersion is positively associated with economic growth, the spillover effect varies significantly by region and is more pronounced in developed regions. So is the effect of the science and technology environment. Developed regions have benefited the most in the process. The three channels of spillover are listed here in order of relative significance: economy, proximity and urbanization. The spillover effect of the Internet may lead to the divergence of regional economies, working against the national goal of reducing regional inequality.

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“…In addition, rural areas are more or less affected (depending on the distance from markets and access to services) by the problem of peripheralization/ marginalization (Grimes, 2000). The problem of the digital divide in the rural areas is a concern not only for developing countries but also for those highly developed, like the United States (Pick, Sarkar, Johnson, 2015), Japan (Nishida, Pick, Sarkar, 2014), Australia (Park, 2016) or the European Union (Vicente, López, 2011).…”

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The issue of digital divide in rural areas of the European Union

Kos-Łabędowicz

2017

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Summary. The increasingly popular use of ICT in different areas of life results in changes of the situations of individuals and entities. However, along with the new possibilities of socioeconomic development, come new risks related to the rise of a new type of inequalities. One of such threats is the digital divide or -in other words -the lack of equal access to the opportunities offered by the Internet and other ICT. The phenomenon of the digital divide applies to both individuals and areas or even countries. The aim of this paper is to introduce the digital divide and the factors influencing the lack of digital convergence with particular emphasis on rural areas of the European Union. In EU's rural areas there is an additional hindrance to achieving digital convergence similar to the urban areas -that is the aging of the population and the progressive depopulation of the countryside.

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Assessing the regional digital divide across the European Union-27

Cited by 203 publications

References 71 publications

ICT capital and labour productivity growth: A non-parametric analysis of 14 OECD countries

ICT capital and labour productivity growth: A non-parametric analysis of 14 OECD countries

Internet Access, Spillover and Regional Development in China

The issue of digital divide in rural areas of the European Union

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