Does innovation stimulate employment? A firm-level analysis using comparable micro data on four European countries
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Does innovation stimulate employment? A firm-level analysis using comparable micro data on four European countriesData de publicació
2005Resum
This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on their employment growth. A model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales due to innovative ... [+]
This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on their employment growth. A model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales due to innovative and unchanged products is derived and estimated using a unique source of comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the UK. Results for manufacturing show that, although process innovation tends to displace employment, compensation effects are prevalent, and product innovation is associated with employment growth. In the service sector there is less evidence of displacement effects, and growth in sales of new products accounts for a non-negligible proportion of employment growth. Overall the results are similar across countries, with some interesting exceptions. [-]
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