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 …

district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activ …. Through this channel, greater innovation is the result of productivity gains from specialization …

The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced …

. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high …, and is associated with higher average productivity and firm profits, but also with higher wage dispersion. We also show …

demand, namely routinization or offshoring, constitute conventional explanations for job polarization, there is little … research on whether shifts in labor supply along the labor demand curve may equally result in job polarization. In this study … elasticities of labor demand from a unique estimation of a profit-maximization model on linked employer-employee data from Germany …