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 …

, France and the United Kingdom. Productivity trends are then studied over a shorter period, using quarterly data, for the …The purpose of this article is to study the trends in per capita productivity in several major industrialised countries … United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Japan and the Netherlands. There are already a large number of …

The empirical relationship between competition intensity and the rate of productivity growth across 30 sectors of the … competition for each sector, defined by the price markup that maximises the growth rate of hourly labour productivity. As there is … follows that sectors with high technical progress require higher markups to maximise their labour productivity growth rate …

We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both … manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this effect goes beyond the …

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 …