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 …

An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …

&D indicators and measures of labor and total factor productivity, average wage and skill composition, on four panel data samples of … positive correlations with productivity, average wage and the share of administrative managers, as well as negative ones with …

data indicate no difference between the relative wage and relative productivity of black workers. Finally, with the … exception of managerial and professional occupations, women are paid about 25-35% less than men, but estimated productivity …

We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its … "techies". We develop a methodology for estimating firm level productivity that allows us to measure both Hicks-neutral and … from 2009 to 2013. We find that techies and importing of intermediate inputs raise skill-biased productivity, while imports …

attempt to raise their productivity to the level required to gain employment. Second, employers faced with an inability to …

employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill … and hours worked by natives. At the same time we find robust evidence that they increased total factor productivity, on … results are robust to controlling for several other determinants of productivity that may vary with geography such as R …

productivity slowdown in the 1970s and resurgence in the 1990s. Lucas (1978) suggests that the quality of managers plays a … influx of young workers will lower the overall quality of management and lower total factor productivity. Census data shows …, increasing managerial quality and raising total factor productivity. Using the Lucas model as a framework, a calibrated model of …

technology (IT) and productivity by investigating several plant-level mechanisms through which IT could promote productivity … estimation of longitudinal models eliminate many sources of unmeasured heterogeneity that could confound productivity comparisons …