productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. …This paper examines the relationship between the use of advanced technologies such as ICT, and outcomes such as …

of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …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 …

We study the relationship between ICT, total factor productivity and export at the firm level in Belgium, France and … the Netherlands. In particular, we look at whether ICT has both a direct effect on export and an indirect effect via … productivity improvements. We allow for endogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, dynamic feedback, initial conditions and …

In this report we review the literature on the relationship between ICT and productivity. In Sect. 1 we discuss in … broad terms the theoretical relationship between ICT and productivity, while in Sect. 2 we present the growth accounting … studying the role of ICT and complementary assets in firms' productivity and the literature exploring the positive …

This paper studies the effect of R&D spillovers on R&D spending and productivity in a sample of German manufacturing … racing phenomena. Moreover, in high-technology industries spillovers have a productivity-enhancing effect in addition to …

foreign countries) on various firm outcomes (domestic employment, production, and productivity). It uses data from the … International Sourcing Survey (ISS) 2017 for Germany, linked to other firm level data such as business register and ITGS data. First … destroyed/created due to offshoring. Moreover, we do not find an effect on labour productivity, since the negative effect on …

We study the importance of intangible capital (R&D, software, patents) for the measurement of productivity using firm … of input choice and unobserved productivity shocks. We find a positive output elasticity for research and development (R … output production function reduces productivity dispersion (measured by the 90-10 decile range) on average by 3%, in some …