-up mechanism through capital accumulation where technology is embodied in new capital goods. Using a putty-clay model of production …, including persistently high but declining rates of labor and total-factor productivity growth, a U-shaped response of the …

We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first …-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion within firms. Using … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both …

-scale evidence on how efficiently firms use these technologies. In this paper, we study firm productivity and learning in cloud … and persistent heterogeneity in compute productivity both across and within firms, similar to canonical results in the … use a wider variety of specialized machines. Notably, productivity is dynamic as firms learn to be more productive over …

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …

Capital equipment - such as computers and industrial machinery - embodies skill-biased technology, in the sense that it … skill-biased technology. In this paper we develop a tractable quantitative model of international trade in capital goods to …

Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lags far behind all other regions of the world. A long list of … program aims to relax multiple constraints to productivity simultaneously. We show that participation causes statistically and …

Agricultural productivity growth in sub-Saharan Africa has been a qualified success. Total factor productivity growth … and the rise in agricultural productivity. The case study of Ghana clearly reflects these broader findings …

frontier and that the frontier will move out faster. In particular, plants that export will achieve a higher productivity level … status on productivity for a panel of manufacturing plants in nine African countries. The results indicate that exporters in … increase their productivity advantage after entry into the export market. While the first finding can be explained by selection …