Effects of Innovation on Employment: A Dynamic Panel Analysis

Lachenmaier, Stefan; Rottmann, Horst

doi:10.2139/ssrn.994809

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Effects of Innovation on Employment: A Dynamic Panel Analysis

CESifo Working Paper No. 2015

31 Pages Posted: 22 Jun 2007

See all articles by Stefan Lachenmaier

Horst Rottmann

University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Date Written: June 2007

Abstract

This paper estimates the effect of innovation on employment at the firm level. Our uniquely long innovation panel data set of German manufacturing firms covers more than 20 years and allows us to use various innovation measures. We can distinguish between product and process innovations as well as between innovation inputs and innovation outputs. Using dynamic panel GMM system estimation we find positive effects of innovation on employment. This result is robust to the use of product and process innovations as well as for innovation input and output.

Keywords: innovation, employment, panel data, dynamic panel methods

JEL Classification: O30, L60, C23, J23

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Lachenmaier, Stefan and Rottmann, Horst, Effects of Innovation on Employment: A Dynamic Panel Analysis (June 2007). CESifo Working Paper No. 2015, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=994809 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.994809