Job creation in business services: innovation, demand, polarisation

Arbeitspapier

The patterns and mechanisms of job creation in business services are investigated in this article by considering the role of innovation, demand, wages and the composition of employment by professional groups. A model is developed and an empirical test is carried out with parallel analyses on a group of selected business services, on other services and on manufacturing sectors, considering six major European countries over the period 1996-2007. Within technological activities, a distinction is made between those supporting either technological competitiveness, or cost competitiveness. Demand variables allow identifying the special role of intermediate demand. Job creation in business services appears to be driven by efforts to expand technological competitiveness and by the fast growing intermediate demand coming from other industries; conversely, process innovation leads to job losses and wage growth has a negative effect that is lower than in other industries. Business services show an increasingly polarised employment structure.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-79-21146-1
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IPTS Working Papers on Corporate R&D and Innovation ; No. 04/2011

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Demand and Supply of Labor: General ; Labor Demand ; Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Thema: Business Services ; Innovation ; Employment.

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bogliacino, Francesco ; Lucchese, Matteo ; Pianta, Mario
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
• (wo): Seville
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.2791/63330
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/202132
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ