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Bogliacino, Francesco
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Piva, Mariacristina
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Vivarelli, Marco
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2017-10-13T11:03:25Z
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2017-10-13T11:03:25Z
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https://hdl.handle.net/2445/116566
dc.description.abstract
The aim of this paper is to test the employment effect of business R&D expenditures, using a unique longitudinal database covering 677 European manufacturing and service firms over the period 1990-2008. Main result from the whole sample dynamic LSDVC (Least Squared Dummy Variable Corrected) estimate is the labour-friendly nature of companies’ R&D, the coefficient of which turns out to be statistically significant, although not very large in magnitude. However, the positive and significant job creation effect of R&D expenditures is detectable in services and high-tech manufacturing but absent in the more traditional manufacturing sectors. This means that we should not expect positive employment effects from increasing R&D in the majority of industrial sectors. This evidence should be kept in mind by European innovation policy makers having employment as one of their specific aims.
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application/pdf
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Institut d’Economia de Barcelona
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Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ieb.ub.edu/2012022157/ieb/ultimes-publicacions
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IEB Working Paper 2011/20
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[WP E-IEB11/20]
dc.rights
cc-by-nc-nd, (c) Bogliacino et al., 2011
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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IEB (Institut d’Economia de Barcelona) – Working Papers
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Recerca industrial
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Gestió de la innovació
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Indústria manufacturera
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Industrial research
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Innovation management
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Manufacturing industries
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Employment (Economic theory)
dc.title
The impact of R&D on employment in Europe: a firm-level analysis
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info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
