' heterogeneous productivity gains and sales dynamics, and innovation activities ultimately shape the patterns of employment dynamics …. Using firm's productivity growth as a proxy for process innovation, our results show that the latter correlates negatively … innovation and patenting activities on employment growth appear to be negligible. …

statistically significant evidence of the expected labor-friendly nature of innovation. More in detail, neither R&D nor investment …

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …