productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …

propose a unifying theory to analyze the symptoms and the potential causes of this decline. We first highlight 10 pronounced … potential of growth theory for the analysis of factors behind declining business dynamism and the need for further investigation …

We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …

productivity growth: to increase the innovative capacity by participating in research and development (R&D), and to increase the …

The social and the private returns to education differ when education can increase productivity, and also be used to … signal productivity. We show how instrumental variables can be used to separately identify and estimate the social and … the life-cycle, is 7.2%. Thus, 70% of the private returns to education can be attributed to education raising productivity …