Employment Effects of Innovation at the Firm Level

This paper analyzes empirically the effects of innovation on employment at the firm levelusing a uniquely long panel dataset of German manufacturing firms. The overall effect ofinnovations on employment often remains unclear in theoretical contributions due to reverseeffects. We distinguish between product and process innovations and introduce in additiondifferent innovation categories. We find clearly positive effects for product and processinnovations on employment growth with the effects for process innovations being slightlyhigher. The effects are stronger in small firms and differ between firms in former West andEast Germany.

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Year of publication:	2006
Authors:	Lachenmaier, Stefan ; Rottmann, Horst
Publisher:	Munich : ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Subject:	innovation \| labour demand \| employment \| firm size \| panel data

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Series:	ifo Working Paper ; 27
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	648819094 [GVK] hdl:10419/73769 [Handle] RePec:ces:ifowps:_27 [RePEc]
Classification:	J23 - Employment Determination; Job Creation; Demand for Labor; Self-Employment ; L60 - Industry Studies: Manufacturing. General ; O30 - Technological Change; Research and Development. General
Source:	EconStor

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