We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first …-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion within firms. Using … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

Innovation booms are often fueled by easy financing that allows new technology firms to pay high wages that attracts …, financing flowed more to firms whose workers would experience the largest productivity declines, amplifying the negative effect …

the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and its impact on clinical outcomes, productivity and labor. We find … HICT on productivity is needed to guide further adoption. There is little econometric work directly investigating the … productivity stressing the importance of complementary factors (e.g. management and skills) in determining HICT impacts …

This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation …, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three …

technology (IT) and productivity by investigating several plant-level mechanisms through which IT could promote productivity … manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work … estimation of longitudinal models eliminate many sources of unmeasured heterogeneity that could confound productivity comparisons …

of the late 1990s does not doom productivity growth to slip back to the dismal pre-1995 era. Instead, we argue that … conventional analyses have exaggerated the contribution of ICT investment to the post-1995 productivity performance. Productivity … ICT production to economy-wide productivity growth, the paper cites four reasons to suspect that standard analyses have …

) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for … innovation, and ICT investment being more important for productivity. For the median firm, rates of return to both investments …

Productivity reflects not only how efficiently inputs are transformed into outputs, but also how well information is …

through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in … relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions … finding that the impact of upstream regulations on total factor productivity can be sizeable, and they provide evidence that a …