Innovation, Labour Demand and Wages in Poland. Some Introductory Results Using Micro-macro Data

Mateusz Walewski

No 392, CASE Network Studies and Analyses from CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research

Abstract: There is a large body of literature on the relationship between innovations and employment at the firm level, with most of the results indicating positive effects. Thus far, this kind of analysis has not been performed for Poland and it seems to be an important and interesting field for research. On the other hand, there is some empirical evidence that developments in the Polish labour market are at least partially driven by the Skill Biased Technical Change (SBTC) process. This paper tries to fill in this gap by looking at three dimensions of the relationship between innovations and employment in Poland: innovations and job creation, innovations and the skill structure of employment innovations, and wage formation. The results of the analysis indicate that there is a weak but positive relationship between the level of innovations and the probability of job creation. However, we have not been able to prove that innovations have any effect on the skill structure of labour demand in Poland. We have however found a positive and statistically significant relationship between the level of innovations and skill-biased wage changes. The results indicate that innovations positively influence the wages of skilled workers while they negatively influence the wages of the unskilled.

Keywords: innovation; employment; wages; Poland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J24 J31 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 Pages
Date: 2009
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