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

We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of … Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for the distributions of productivity and sales to have the same form …

Commonly used methods of production function estimation assume that a firm’s output quantity can be observed as data … function, total factor productivity, price markups over marginal costs, output prices, output quantities, a demand system, and …