productivity in the United Kingdom relative to the United States, and to a lesser extent also relative to France and Japan until …The present study contributes to the analysis of economic growth by comparing labour ant total factor productivity (TFP …) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long run (since 1890) and in the medium run (since …

We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both … manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this effect goes beyond the …