Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Francesco Bogliacino
Author-X-Name-First: Francesco 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bogliacino
Author-Email: francesco.bogliacino@gmail.com
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad EAFIT and RISE Group, Medellin
Author-Name: Marco Vivarelli
Author-X-Name-First: Marco
Author-X-Name-Last: Vivarelli
Author-Email: marco.vivarelli@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica
Title:  Innovation and employment: Some evidence from European sectors
Abstract:  In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel estimations of a demand-for-labour equation augmented with technology.
We find that R&D expenditures have a job-creating effect, in accordance with the previoustheoretical and empirical literature discussed in the paper. Interestingly enough, the labourfriendly nature of R&D emerges in both the flow and the stock specifications. These findings provide further justification for the European Lisbon-Barcelona targets.
Length: 21 pages
Creation-Date: 2011-12
Publication-Status: 
File-URL: http://www.unicatt.it/dipartimenti/DISES/allegati/dises1178.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2011
Number: dises1178
Classification-JEL: O33.
Keywords: Technological change, corporate R&D, employment, product innovation, GMMSYS.
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie2:dises1178