Research Areas

This project takes a deeper look and updates the research work on the digital economy in Spain  published in 2023, which allows to assess the progress of digitalization in Spain and its regions with a detail of 21 sectors of activity. The objective is to provide additional information on the development of the digital economy focusing on the dynamics of the labor market and the relationship between productivity and digitization.

The project on measuring the digital economy has the following objectives:

• Update the digital economy measurement database by including adding a year. Aggregate national and regional data with sectoral disaggregation would include 2022.
• Extend the database by including two additional dimensions: 1) decomposition of employed persons according to whether or not they are digital; and 2) decomposition of labor compensation according to the type of workers: digital vs. non-digital.
• The growth accounting methodology is used to decompose the growth of value added according to the different productive factors (capital -digital and non-digital-, labor -digital and non-digital-).
• The methodology is also updated and the concept of “equivalent digital employed” is included to also cover the digital skills of workers who are not digital specialists and, in this way, address the digitalization of labor more precisely.