Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202197 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Digital Economy Working Paper No. 2014/07
Publisher: 
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Seville
Abstract: 
This paper examines whether ICT substitute labour and reduce the demand for labour. We used firm-level comparable data separately for firms in manufacturing, services and ICT-producing sectors from seven European countries. We adopted a common methodology and applied it to a unique dataset provided by the ESSLait Project on Linking Microdata. We controlled for unobservable time-invariant firm-specific effects and we found no evidence of a negative relationship between intensity of ICT use and employment growth. We read this as an indication that ICT use is not reducing employment among ICT using firms.
Subjects: 
Labour Demand
Technological Change
ICT
JEL: 
J23
J24
O33
L86
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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