We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its … adoption: its employment of workers with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) skills and experience who we call … "techies". We develop a methodology for estimating firm level productivity that allows us to measure both Hicks-neutral and …

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 … manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work … estimation of longitudinal models eliminate many sources of unmeasured heterogeneity that could confound productivity comparisons …

the composition of intermediate inputs and capital coefficients. There is modest evidence that the growth of worker skills … is positively related to industry productivity growth. The effects are very modest -- adding at most 0.07 percentage … points to annual labor productivity growth …

&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 …