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 …

Major European countries, unlike the United States, did not experience an acceleration in labour productivity growth in … 1980-2000 period. They find that total factor productivity growth picked up considerably in the second half of the 1990s … relative to the first half, but that labour productivity growth actually decelerated. This latter development was related to …

This article, by Ian A. Stewart, is a review of the recently released Industry Canada research volume Productivity … the volume represents an important contribution to the productivity literature in Canada. He points out that data and … the macroeconomic perspective in the analysis of productivity growth. He believes that the golden age of productivity …

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 …

Developed economies have experienced slowing productivity growth in recent decades. Potential common drivers include … falling rates of innovation, the fading impacts of ICT and past economic reforms, and shifting economic activity to lower … productivity sectors. These are argued to have had varying degrees of influence on country performance, tempered by domestic …

of firm productivity, focusing on the role played by international management standards certification. We develop and … technological capabilities, international standards are still conducive to higher productivity, through improved management … productivity premium. We further investigate the relationship between technological innovation and standard adoption. We find that …

Productivity growth has declined in most advanced economies in the past two decades and there are signs that the pace … - international trade in intermediate inputs - for multi-factor productivity growth using a range of cross-country industry-level data … sources. We find that greater participation in GVCs is associated with faster domestic productivity growth at the industry …

efficiency, labor productivity, and growth. We also include imports into the knowledge production function, because catching up … economies may adopt technologies embodied in imported hardware. Additionally, we link productivity and innovation output to … process innovation in all performance features except for labor productivity. However, higher efficiency does not improve the …