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

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 …

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 …

This paper considers cost-reducing R&D investment with spillovers in a Cournot oligopoly with minority shareholdings …

This paper studies R&D investment decisions of a firm facing the threat of new technology entry and subject to …

industry productivity. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms … expected industry productivity. The central results of the paper regarding firm and industry level R&D spending differ … significantly from the case of homogeneous firms. -- international trade ; firm heterogeneity ; R&D ; productivity ; market …

is found that patents ought to be weaker, the more intense competition, the higher R&D productivity, and the more …