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Pré-publication, Document de travail |
Titre |
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Techies, Trade, and Skill-Biased Productivity
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Résumé |
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We study the impact of firm-level choices on ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity, its bias towards skilled workers, and implications for labor demand. We use a novel measure of firm-level R&D and ICT adoption: employment of "techies" who perform these tasks. We develop methodology for estimating nested-CES production functions and for measuring both Hicks-neutral and skill-augmenting technology differences at the firm level. Using administrative data on French firms we find that techies, exporting and importing raise skill-biased productivity. In contrast, only ICT techies raise Hicks-neutral productivity. On average, higher firm-level skill biased productivity hardly affects low-skill employment, even as it raises relative demand for skill, due to the cost-reducing effect. ICT accounts for large increases in aggregate demand for skill, mostly due to the effect on firm size, less so through within-firm changes. Exporting, importing, and R&D have smaller aggregate effects.
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Auteur(s)
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James Harrigan
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, Ariell Reshef
2, 1, 3
, Farid Toubal
2, 4, 5
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PSE -
Paris School of Economics
( 301309 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne ( 7550 )
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École normale supérieure - Paris ( 59704 )
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Université Paris Sciences et Lettres ( 564132 )
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École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( 99539 )
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École des Ponts ParisTech ( 301545 )
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( 441569 )
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Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement ( 577435 )
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CEPII -
Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales
( 39083 )
- 9 rue Georges Pitard - 75740 Paris Cedex 15
- France
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Centre d'analyse stratégique ( 309406 )
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CES -
Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne
( 15080 )
- Maison des Sciences Économiques - 106-112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75647 Paris Cedex 13
- France
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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne UMR8174 ( 7550 )
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8174 ( 441569 )
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CEPR -
Center for Economic Policy Research
( 143559 )
- Royaume-Uni
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LEDa -
Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine
( 559342 )
- Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny - 75775 PARIS Cedex 16
- France
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Institut de Recherche pour le Développement UMR260 ( 67872 )
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Université Paris Dauphine-PSL ( 300302 )
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Université Paris Sciences et Lettres ( 564132 )
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8007 ( 441569 )
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Classification |
D.D2.D24
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Domaine(s) |
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Économie et finance quantitative [q-fin]
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Mots-clés (JEL) |
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D - Microeconomics/D.D2 - Production and Organizations/D.D2.D24 - Production • Cost • Capital • Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity • Capacity
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F - International Economics/F.F1 - Trade/F.F1.F16 - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
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F - International Economics/F.F6 - Economic Impacts of Globalization/F.F6.F66 - Labor
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J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor/J.J2.J23 - Labor Demand
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J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor/J.J2.J24 - Human Capital • Skills • Occupational Choice • Labor Productivity
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O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth/O.O5 - Economywide Country Studies/O.O5.O52 - Europe
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Mots-clés |
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Globalization, ICT, labor demand, Outsourcing, productivity, R&D, skill augmenting, Skill bias, STEM skills, techies
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