Abstract:

 The leading role information and communications technologies (ICTs) and knowledge dissemination plays in labor productivity has been the object of attention of many authors (1a). However, few empirical studies exist that support the proposed elements in the Mexican context. This study, one in a series of four, presents a general overview of the level of labor productivity in Mexico in the international context and its relationship with the ICTs and knowledge dissemination, which will serve as a foundation for a later empirical analysis of the services sector. (Paper 2: Causal Relationship: Knowledge Dissemination – Labor productivity; Paper 3: Causal Relationship: ICTs – Labor Productivity; Paper 4: Model for Measurement of Increase of Labor Productivity as a Function of ICTs and Knowledge Dissemination.) (1a) Bailey ( 2003), Bailey & Gordon (1988), Colechia & Schreyer (2001), Gordon (1999), Jorgenson & Stiroh (2000), Oliver &Sichel (2000), O’Mahony & Van Ark (2003), Pilat (2003), Stiroh (2002), Van Ark & Timmer (2004).