work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …

productivity. We distinguish AI users that source AI from external providers (AI buyers) from those developing their own AI systems … into AI use. This is not the case for AI developers, for which the positive link between AI use and productivity remains …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

upgrading in foreign-acquired firms. We reveal substantial productivity gains within foreign-acquired firms and we show that …

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to …

robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. …

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 activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …