In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in … explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-World War II era. We argue that previous work was … excessively focused on physical capital investments determining productivity differentials, which consequently led to an …

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 …