Companies that hire consulting firms see large increases in labor productivity and also large increases of wages, with no decline in labor share or value added. It seems like a lot of the more nihilist theories of why companies hire consultants are not true on average!
Benjamin Schoefer
Benjamin Schoefer28.7.2025
New paper: "What Does Consulting Do?" w/ Gert Bijnens, @simon_jaeger Consulting is a storied but opaque industry. Our VAT-based B2B data permit the 1st comprehensive study: Which firms buy consulting? What happens when they do?
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