19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the idea that Internet access is important in the formation of ICT … skills, and we implement instrumental-variable models that leverage exogenous variation in Internet availability across … for a one-standard-deviation increase in ICT skills in the international analysis and are almost twice as large in Germany …

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 …

establishment entry and exit drive immigrant-induced job creation and a rightward shift of the productivity distribution in U ….S. local industries. High-productivity establishments are more likely to enter and less likely to exit in high immigration … environments, whereas low-productivity establishments are more likely to exit. These dynamics result in productivity growth. A …

Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth … that commenced around 2005. The successful integration of five million predominantly low-productivity workers into the … labor market induced an attenuating effect on productivity growth. This does not explain the slowdown entirely, however. As …

At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage p olicy in Germany are … development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …

this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by visiting selected paper mills in Finland, the U.S., Germany and … modernization investments, including ICT. The second part of the paper presents evidence on firms’ productivity paths, and the … heterogeneity in productivity among relatively similar firms. I also present selected evidence of these firms’ investments in …