An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …

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 …

effects of technology for productivity and welfare has eroded as understanding has advanced. Given this intellectual …

extent of automation and the rate of growth of labor-augmenting productivity. In this framework, capital accumulation and …

abundant. Automating productivity growth may lead to broad-based gains in the returns to all factors. By contrast, bottlenecks …

productivity across establishments. We find that differences in technology sophistication account for 31% of cross …-establishment dispersion in productivity and for more than half of the agricultural productivity gap …