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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 15-090
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior: General
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Thema
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Mobile Internet
Labour Productivity
Firm-Level Data
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bertschek, Irene
Niebel, Thomas
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
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Mannheim
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-405209
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bertschek, Irene
- Niebel, Thomas
- Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
Entstanden
- 2015