Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279217 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10468
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by leveraging French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion within firms. Using 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 employment of R&D workers, extending to ICT and other techies. In non-manufacturing firms, the impact of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater effect on productivity than technicians.
Subjects: 
productivity
R&D
ICT
techies
STEM skills
JEL: 
D20
D24
F10
F16
F60
F66
J20
J23
J24
O52
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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