Firm Employment Growth, R&D Expenditures and Exports

Marco Di Cintio, Sucharita Ghosh Sucharita Ghosh and Emanuele Grassi

No 240750, ETA: Economic Theory and Applications from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)

Abstract: This paper studies firms’ decisions to export and invest in R&D and their effects on employment growth and labor flows for a sample of Italian SMEs operating in the manufacturing industry. After accounting for the under-reporting of R&D in SMEs, our quantile regressions reveal that (i) R&D is associated with higher employment growth rates, higher hiring rates and lower separation rates; (ii) R&D-induced exports are negatively related to employment growth and accessions and positively related to separations; and (iii) pure exports are not a driver of employment growth and labor flows.

Keywords: Research; Methods/Statistical; Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35
Date: 2016-07-04
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.240750

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