| Summary: | 博士 === 國立中央大學 === 產業經濟研究所 === 94 === This paper uses firm-level data from the Industry, Commerce and Service Sampling Survey to determine why firms use electronic commerce technology and how this technology affects the firm’s total factor productivity, labor productivity, skill upgrading, average wages, average skilled labor wages, average unskilled labor wages, total sales, total export and export intensity. To perform the analysis, we employ the propensity score matching method developed by Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983).
In analyzing the determinants of firms using e-commerce technology, our results show that old firms, that have higher R&D expenditure, that have foreign capital and have large scales of operation, will tend to adopt technology. Furthermore, the adoption of e-commerce technology contribute positively to the firm’s total factor productivity, labor productivity, skill upgrading, average wages, average skilled labor wages, average unskilled labor wages, total sales, total export and export intensity. Our results are consistent with existing empirical evidence that also shows a positive relationship.
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