In this work, we test the employment impact of distinct types of innovative investments using a representative sample … statistically significant evidence of the expected labor-friendly nature of innovation. More in detail, neither R&D nor investment … significant employment effect. However, the job-creation impact of R&D expenditures becomes highly significant when the focus is …

The microeconomic empirical literature devoted to the link between innovation and employment tends to suggest that … in size - positive relationship between innovation and employment. While the links with sales and wages have the expected … investments, as in Italian manufacturing. Applying GMM-SYS to an employment equation augmented for technology and using a unique …

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment …

estimation techniques - the R&D coefficients for the US firms always turn out to be significantly higher. To see to what extent …