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 … effect goes beyond the employment of R&D workers, extending to ICT and other techies. In non-manufacturing firms, the impact …

ethnic identity on the immigrants' employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … identities. The paper investigates the impact of the ethnic identity measures on the employment outcomes of immigrants in France …. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help …

analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment …-segment variation of the estimated effects is mostly driven by firm productivity levels rather than by search frictions or the … opportunity cost of employment. …

-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for an almost complete set of OECD countries, ii.) non-linear results on how …

group of structural policies, typically those where the transmission mechanism depends mainly on productivity and capital …

induced by time and local variations in sunset time. We find that a 1-hour increase in weekly sleep increases employment by 1 ….6 percentage points and weekly earnings by 3.4%. Most of this earnings effect comes from productivity improvements, while the …

of cholera across France in 1832, 1849 and 1854, before the transmission mode of this disease was understood. The results …

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