Technological innovation and the distribution of employment growth: A firm-level analysis

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This work studies the firm-level relationship between different types of innovative activities and employment growth rates. Improving on previous investigations on the topic, it combines a dynamic panel analysis of the effects of different types of product and process innovation on employment growth with an outlook on the whole conditional employment growth distribution. Results show that product innovation - especially in terms of good new to the entire market - has a positive effect on employment growth. This role is likely to be particularly relevant for both fast-growing and shrinking firms. Process innovation appears instead to have less clear-cut dynamics, consistently with existing evidence. Among different types of process innovation, the introduction of novel auxiliary processes appears to be more positively linked with employment growth.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: LEM Working Paper Series ; No. 2016/37

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General ; Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope ; Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions ; Labor Demand
• Subject: Innovation ; Employment growth ; Dynamic panel methods ; Quantile regression

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Calvino, Flavio
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM)
• (where): Pisa
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/174546
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET