This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization under NAFTA on the productivity of the Mexican automobile …) to obtain a productivity measure. In a second stage, a model is estimated by System GMM to analyze the effect of trade … openness on the estimated productivity. The main results indicate that there exists a positive association between trade …

Many sectors of the UK economy experienced rapid productivity growth over the 1980's. This coincided with an increase … use more intermediate goods. They also pay their workers higher wages. Differences in levels of total factor productivity …

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 …

Economic theory implies that research and development (R&D) efforts increase firm productivity and ultimately profits …

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 … is evidenced in a greater dispersion in productivity and related key business choices. We also find that the mean impact … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. …