Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71533 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. 06/24
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
Italian manufacturing ¯rms have been losing ground with respect to many of their European competitors. This paper presents some empirical evidence on the e®ects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on ¯rms' productivity with the goal of understanding the roots of such poor performance. We use ¯rm level data from the last three surveys on Italian manufacturing ¯rms conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia, which cover the period 1995-2003. Using a modi¯ed version of the model proposed by Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse and Peters (2005), which separates employment growth rates into those associated with old and new products, we provide robust evidence that there is no employment displacement e®ect stemming from process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation is somewhat lower than that for the four comparison European countries considered by Harrison et al. – Innovation ; employment ; productivity ; Italy
JEL: 
L60
O31
O33
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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