Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Laura Barbieri
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Barbieri
Author-Email: laura.barbieri@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Università Cattolica
Author-Name: Mariacristina Piva
Author-X-Name-First: Mariacristina
Author-X-Name-Last: Piva
Author-Email: mariacristina.piva@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Università Cattolica
Author-Name: Marco Vivarelli
Author-X-Name-First: Marco
Author-X-Name-Last: Vivarelli
Author-Email: marco.vivarelli@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: Istituto di Politica Economica, Università Cattolica
Title: The Employment Impact of Different Forms of Innovation: Evidence from Italian Community Innovation Survey
Abstract: This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and embodied technological change (ETC). We use a novel panel dataset covering 265 innovative Italian firms over the period 1998-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly
nature of total innovation expenditures; however, this positive effect is barely significant when the sole in-house R&D expenditures are considered and fades away when ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities and R&D expenditures are totally due to firms operating in high-tech industries and large companies, while no job-creation due to technical change is detectable in traditional sectors and SMEs.
Length: 40 pages
Creation-Date: 2016-11
Publication-Status:
File-URL: http://dipartimenti.unicatt.it/dises-dises_wp_16_120.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2016
Number: dises1620
Classification-JEL: O31, O33
Keywords: Technology, innovation, R&D, embodied technological change, employment
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie2:dises1620