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 …

. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high …, and is associated with higher average productivity and firm profits, but also with higher wage dispersion. We also show …

fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …

high-wage country. Job polarisation is the result of a reallocation of labour across firms that differ in productivity and … margin, with domestic employment shifted from the newly offshoring firms in the middle of the productivity distribution to … labour across firms affects economy-wide unemployment. Offshoring reduces unemployment when it is confined to high-productivity …

experiment, counterfactual simulations show that sectorneutral productivity growth, which generates shifts in consumption towards … in productivity leads to a 0.1 to 0.25 percent increase in the skill premium. In several countries, including China and …