We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both … manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this effect goes beyond the …

A unified growth theory is developed that accounts for the roughly constant living standards displayed by world … economies prior to 1800 as well as the growing living standards exhibited by modern industrial economies. Our theory also … sustained growth. This transition is inevitable given positive rates of total factor productivity growth. We use a standard …

We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the … productivity, research, and patenting, we simulate the growth of the five countries, given initial productivity levels in 1950 and … the magnitude of the slowdown in German, French, and Japanese productivity growth and the relative constancy of U.K. and U …

, and that a high rate of machinery investment is a necessary prerequisite for rapid long-run productivity growth - a …

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size …

competition on not only clinical outcomes but also productivity and expenditure. Our data set is large, containing information on …

, employee share ownership, and stock options--and their link to productivity. It shows that shared capitalism has grown in the … productivity, but its impact is largest when firms combine it with other forms of shared capitalist pay and modes of organization …

This paper explores the role of knowledge flows and productivity growth by linking direct survey data on knowledge …