Techies and Firm-Level Productivity

• 成果类型: Article; Early Access
• 署名作者: Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid
• 署名单位: University of Virginia; National Bureau of Economic Research; Paris School of Economics; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Universite PSL; Universite Paris-Dauphine; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/iere.70095
• 发表日期: 2026
• 关键词: research-and-development; returns; IMPACT; investments; spillovers; TRADE

摘要

We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on techies in the firm using French administrative data. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and associated with innovation, technology adoption, management, and diffusion within firms. Using structural econometric methods, we estimate the effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing. We find that techies raise productivity, and that this effect goes beyond R&D workers, extending to ICT and other techies. In nonmanufacturing firms, the impact operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers.