It's Not What You Make, It's How You Use IT : Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the IT Revolution Across Countries

This paper analyzes the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (information technology) goods across a wide range of countries. We find, using two separate methodologies and datasets, that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling relative prices. This is important, as IT production and use are highly differentiated across countries, and implies that earlier work on how IT production affects real GDP, while useful in calibrating the overall benefits of the IT revolution, are a less valuable way of assessing the distribution of benefits.
Publication date: July 2002
ISBN: 9781451854022
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Labor , Labor , Development - Economic Development , Development - Economic Development , welfare benefits , real gdp , benefits , national income , gdp per capita , Welfare Economics: General , Economic Growth of Open Economies , Comparative Studies of Countries

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