Economic growth, telecommunications development and productivity growth of the telecommunications sector: Evidence around the world

Lam, Pun-Lee; Shiu, Alice

doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2009.12.001

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“…However, this study also found that ICT capital seems to produce an opposite effect on labour productivity growth: an increase through capital accumulation and a decrease through technological change. The first positive effect confirms the empirical evidence of related studies for the period between 1995 and 2005 (Jalava & Pohjola, 2007;Lam & Shiu, 2010;Vu, 2011). The second negative effect indicates the presence of a technological regress caused by ICT capital.…”

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“…Since the mid-1990s, the rapid growth of output and labour productivity across countries has largely been driven by advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) (Jorgenson, 2001;Venturini, 2009;Lam & Shiu, 2010;Vu, 2011). In particular, numerous studies have shown that ICT investments boosted the economy of the United States (USA) (Jorgenson & Stiroh, 2000;Jorgenson, 2001;Oliner & Sichel, 2002;Stiroh, 2002;Jorgenson, Ho, & Stiroh, 2005 and some economies of the European Union (EU) (Colecchia & Schreyer, 2002;Daveri, 2002;van Ark, Inklaar, & McGuckin, 2003;Jalava & Pohjola, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

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

Ceccobelli

Gitto

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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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Ceccobelli

Gitto

Mancuso

2012

Telecommunications Policy

115

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“…Development of telecommunications infrastructure (DTI) plays a major role in economic growth (Cronin et al 1991;McGovern and Hebert 1992;Madden and Savage 2000;Dutta 2001;Datta and Agarwal 2004;Lam and Shiu, 2010;Czernich et al, 2009;Bojnec and Ferto 2012;Prieger 2013;Rajabiun and Middleton 2013). DTI affects economic growth both directly and indirectly (see Figure 1).…”

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confidence: 99%

Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Growth: Comparative Policy Analysis for the G-20 Developed and Developing Countries

Pradhan

Arvin

Bahmani

et al. 2014

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

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This paper examines the nexus between the development of telecommunications infrastructure (DTI), economic growth, and four key indicators of the operations of advanced economies. It employs a panel vector auto-regressive model to detect causality and examine long-run relationships between variables in the G-20 countries for the period 2001-2012. Evidence is found that DTI, measured through six indicators, may cause economic growth and that causation may be bidirectional. Not surprisingly, the exact nature of causality depends on the group of countries considered and on the definition of DTI.

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“…integrated at the order of one in levels. However, it is stationary in …rst di¤erences -a conclusion drawn by other authors as well (see Lam & Shiu, 2010). First-di¤erencing this variable helps to avoid problems associated with using levels as dependent variable.…”

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Implications of mandatory registration of mobile phone users in Africa

Jentzsch

2012

Telecommunications Policy

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Economic growth, telecommunications development and productivity growth of the telecommunications sector: Evidence around the world

Cited by 169 publications

References 28 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

Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Growth: Comparative Policy Analysis for the G-20 Developed and Developing Countries

Implications of mandatory registration of mobile phone users in Africa

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