Tecnologia da Informação e produtividade: evidências para a indústria brasileira a partir de dados em nível da firma

The article has a central objective: to verify the current impacts of the adoption of information technologies to labour productivity of the Brazilian industrial firms. We used a sample of 26.776 firms, which data are from the Annual Industrial Survey (PIA) and from the Industrial Survey of Technological Innovation, both provided by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE); from the Annual Relationship of Social Information (RAIS) of Department of Labor and Job (MTE); of the General Office of External Trade (SECEX) of the Ministry of Development, Industry and External Trade (MDIC); and from the Census of Foreign Capitals, of the Central Bank of Brazil.. The Brazilian Applied Economics Research Institute (IPEA) organized the database. The cross-section econometric model focus 2003. The results indicate that the adoption of TI produces positive effects to the works’ productivity.