Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Bettina Peters ()

Development and Comp Systems from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Using a recently developed model which allows to separate a few well- established employment effects of product and process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The econometric analysis confirms that product innovations have a positive impact on employment. In contrast to previous studies, this effect is independent of the novelty degree. Moreover, different employment effects between manufacturing and service firms regarding process innovations were found. Finally, from a cross country perspective the results for Germany are similar to those found for Spain and the UK.

Keywords: Innovation; employment; applied econometrics; manufacturing; services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 J23 L60 O32 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2005-04-11
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