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Le paradoxe de la productivité

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  • Nathalie Greenan

    (Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi)

  • Yannick L’Horty

    (EPEE - Université d’Evry-Val d’Essonne)

Abstract

« On peut voir les ordinateurs partout sauf dans les statistiques de productivité ». Ce paradoxe de la productivité, formulé il y a quinze ans par Robert Solow, a suscité les explications les plus diverses. On s’est tout d’abord interrogé sur l’existence même d’un effet des technologies de l’information et des communications (TIC) sur la productivité des entreprises qui les utilisaient. On a montré ensuite que les délais dans lesquels cet effet pouvait se diffuser au niveau de l’ensemble d’une économie devaient sans doute être très long. On a mis en question l’ampleur de la diffusion effective des TIC. On a aussi montré qu’en réalité l’impact était d’ores et déjà bien réel mais qu’il était très mal mesuré. On a finalement cru déceler un effet important sur la productivité agrégée et l’on a tenté d’expliquer ainsi les performances américaines de la deuxième moitié des années quatre-vingt-dix, jusqu’au retournement conjoncturel de 2001. Au terme de toutes ces tentatives d’explication, aucune réponse n’est pleinement convaincante. Pour certains, la nouvelle économie aurait éliminé le paradoxe. Pour d’autres, le paradoxe demeure et est plus vaste qu’il n’y paraît, les TIC n’étant que l’une des composantes de la réorganisation des systèmes d’information à l’oeuvre au sein des entreprises.

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  • Nathalie Greenan & Yannick L’Horty, 2002. "Le paradoxe de la productivité," Documents de recherche 02-02, Centre d'Études des Politiques Économiques (EPEE), Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne.
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