productivity. The effects are investigated both in isolation and in conjunction with the impact of ICT maturity on microdata in six … European countries (UK, France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland) for the period 2001-2009. We find that increases in the … proportion of ICT-intensive human capital boosts productivity. This seems to confirm the case in favour of recruitment of highly …

We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …

Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … level. This article sheds light on this convergence process in the 1990s and the 2000s in France and on some of the factors …