Innovation, Firm Size, Technology Intensity, and Employment Generation: Evidence from the Uruguayan Manufacturing Sector

Diego Aboal, Paula Garda, Bibiana Lanzilotta and Marcelo Perera

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2015, vol. 51, issue 1, 3-26

Abstract: In this article, we investigate the effect of product and process innovation on employment growth and on employment composition in terms of skills using data from Uruguayan manufacturing firms’ innovation surveys. The results reveal that product innovation is associated with employment growth. There is (weaker) evidence that process innovation displaces labor, especially in high-tech firms. There is evidence that innovation is more complementary to skilled than to unskilled labor. Product innovation seems to have a larger positive effect on skilled labor, especially in high-tech industries. Process innovation in general displaces unskilled labor but is neutral in terms of skilled labor.

Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1540496X.2015.998072 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mes:emfitr:v:51:y:2015:i:1:p:3-26

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/MREE20

DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2015.998072

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Emerging Markets Finance and Trade from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().