important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers … suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …

In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices … the sample composition and argue that focusing on manufacturing and mining sectors mitigates unobserved heterogeneity and … industries leads to a sizable drop of the productivity effects, halving the effect size for labor productivity and insignificant …

In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices … variables reestablishes the productivity effects, but still rejects positive wage effects and skill-biased technological change …

In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices … workforce variables reestablishes the productivity effects, but still rejects positive wage effects and skill …

STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … effect goes beyond the employment of R&D workers, extending to ICT and other techies. In non-manufacturing firms, the impact …

This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States …

Productivity of the Finnish private sector decreased during the financial crisis of 2008-2009 and, since then …, productivity growth has not reached the level preceding the crisis. A key factor underlying productivity growth is R&D. The … worthwhile considering whether changes in productivity effects of R&D, instead of changes in volumes of R&D inputs, may explain …

The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD … barriers preventing catch-up to occur. We find the level of averagelabor productivity, as a proxy for these barriers, to be …

supply of skills, labor market reforms, redesigned social safety nets, measures to promote digital innovation and facilitate …A new wave of innovation is beginning to disrupt industry on a global scale. It constitutes a tremendous opportunity … for faster productivity growth, but also a potential disruption to a number of economic sectors and to job markets …