-biased technical change for the flattening of productivity growth and effects on hours worked. The results show that more than 60 … percent of the slowdown in productivity growth in Germany since the early 2000s can be explained by the SBTC development …

machine-operating occupations, while high-skilled managers gain. In the aggregate, robots raise labor productivity but not …

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 …

-neutral technology on hours worked, productivity and wages in a novel structural vector error correction framework identified by non …, productivity and wages. Structural inequality shocks also have a negative impact on hours worked, but additionally reduce … productivity. We find relevant effects of inequality both above and below the median wage. …

Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

groups. International trade is measured as changes in product prices and technical change as total factor productivity (TFP …

increases the demand for low-skilled workers, too. The overall effects on wages and employment of skilled and low …