Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202141 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IPTS Working Papers on Corporate R&D and Innovation No. 03/2012
Publisher: 
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Seville
Abstract: 
This study examines serial correlation in employment, sales and innovative sales growth rates in a balanced panel of 3,300 Spanish firms over the years 2002-2009, obtained by matching different waves of the Spanish Encuesta sobre Innovacion en las Empresas, the Spanish innovation survey conducted annually by the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE). The main objective is to verify whether the changes (increase/decrease) in these figures are persistent over time, whether such persistence (if any) differs between SMEs and larger firms, and if it is affected by a firm's age. To do so, we adopted a semi-parametric quantile regression approach. This methodology is well suited to cases where outliers (high-growth firms) are the subject of investigation and/or when they have to be assumed as being very heterogeneous. Empirical results indicate that among those innovative firms experiencing high employment growth, the smaller and younger grow faster than larger firms, but the jobs they create are not persistent over time. However, while being smaller and younger helps growing more in terms of employment and sales, it is not an advantage when innovative sales growth is considered: in this case larger firms experience faster growth.
Subjects: 
Serial correlation
quantile regression model
Spanish firms
firm size
firm age
job creation
fast growing firms
JEL: 
L11
L25
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-79-25989-0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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