Since the information technology revolution in 2000, businesses worldwide have adopted information and communication technology (ICT) and big data. Recent studies attribute the origin of productivity growth in Europe and the United States to the depth of ICT utilization. We investigate whether that is the case in Japan. We measure the productivity of five manufacturing and eleven services industries in Japan and observe how it changed before and after 2000. Our results suggest that productivity increased for providers of ICT products but not for providers of ICT services. Moreover, productivity rose after 2000 in seven services industries that are users of ICT. Japanese firms are predominantly small and medium-sized and we conclude that the productivity findings for western countries are also observed for Japanese small and medium-sized enterprises.

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1982-2016 年日本中小企业全要素生产率变化：IT 革命的暗示性迹象？

自 2000 年信息技术革命以来，全球企业纷纷采用信息通信技术 (ICT) 和大数据。最近的研究将欧洲和美国生产力增长的起源归因于 ICT 使用的深度。我们调查日本是否也是这种情况。我们衡量了日本 5 个制造业和 11 个服务业的生产力，并观察了 2000 年前后的变化。我们的结果表明 ICT 产品供应商的生产力提高，但 ICT 服务供应商的生产力没有提高。此外，在 2000 年之后，作为 ICT 用户的七个服务行业的生产率有所提高。