Innovation and Job Creation in a Small Open Economy Evidence from Norwegian Manufacturing Plants 1982-92

Tor Klette and Svein Erik Førre ()
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Svein Erik Førre: Statistics Norway, https://www.ssb.no/en/forskning/ansatte

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Abstract: It is often claimed that the opportunities to create new manufacturing jobs in open, high-cost economies such as Norway, are concentrated in products which are technologically advanced and knowledge intensive. This paper examines the relationship between job creation and innovation, as measured by R&D investments, in Norwegian manufacturing. We compare job creation in plants belonging to R&D firms to plants belonging to firms without R&D. We also compare job creation in plants belonging to high and low tech industries. Our data set covers more than 80 percent of manufacturing employment in Norway over the period 1982-92. The paper challenges the optimistic view about job creation in R&D intensive firms and high-tech industries. Some main findings are: (i) Net job creation is not higher in high-tech industries. (ii) There is no clear-cut positive relationship between net job creation and the R&D-intensity of the firm. (iii) There is less net job creation and less job-security in R&D-intensive firms in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Keywords: R&D; innovation; job creation; job destruction. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 J23 J63 O32 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995-12
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Journal Article: Innovation And Job Creation In A Smallopen Economy-Evidence From Norwegian Manufacturing Plants 1982-92 (1998)
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