Innovation and employment: Some evidence from European sectors

Francesco Bogliacino and Marco Vivarelli ()

No dises1178, DISCE - Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche (DISCE)

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.

Keywords: Technological change; corporate R&D; employment; product innovation; GMMSYS. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2011-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-eur, nep-ino, nep-knm, nep-sbm and nep-tid
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