Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/174546 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2016/37
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Innovation
Employment growth
Dynamic panel methods
Quantile regression
JEL: 
O30
L25
L60
C23
C21
J23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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