Technological innovation and the distribution of employment growth: a firm-level analysis

Flavio Calvino

Industrial and Corporate Change, 2019, vol. 28, issue 1, 177-202

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 detailed analysis of the effects of product and process innovation on average employment growth with a broader 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.

JEL-codes: C21 C23 J23 L25 L60 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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