Arbeitspapier

Mobile and more productive? Firm-level evidence on the productivity effects of mobile internet use

Mobile internet access allows for flexibility with respect to working time and working place. We analyse whether employees' use of mobile internet access improves firms' labour productivity. Our data set contains 2143 German firms and refers to the year 2014, when high-speed mobile internet was still at a relatively early stage of diffusion within firms. The econometric analysis shows that firms' labour productivity significantly increases with the share of employees with mobile internet access. Our instrumental variables approach reveals that mobile internet use does cause higher labour productivity.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 15-090

Classification
Wirtschaft
Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior: General
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Subject
Mobile Internet
Labour Productivity
Firm-Level Data

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bertschek, Irene
Niebel, Thomas
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2015

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-405209
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Bertschek, Irene
  • Niebel, Thomas
  • Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)

Time of origin

  • 2015

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