TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rückert,Désirée
AU  - Weiss,Christoph
AU  - European Investment Bank
AU  - Veugelers,Reinhilde
TI  - EIB Working Paper 2020/07 - The growing digital divide in Europe and the United States
T2  - EIB Working Papers
SN  - 9789286146831
PB  - European Investment Bank
KW  - Business & Economics / Finance
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Economics
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Using the EIBIS Digital and Skills Survey on digitalisation activities of firms in the EU and the US, this study confirms the trend toward a growing digital divide in the corporate landscape with, on one side, many firms that are not digitally active, and on the other side, a substantial number of digitally active firms forging ahead. Old small firms, with less than 50 employees and more than 10 years old, are significantly more likely to be persistently digitally non-active. We show that these persistently non-digital firms are less likely to be innovative, increase employment or command higher mark-ups. These trends are likely to exacerbate the digital divide across firms in the EU and the US
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/0b416cba-d15c-4e7a-9ffc-bc697849c502
ER  -