TY - JOUR
T1 - Technological innovation and employment
T2 - Complements or substitutes?
AU - Benavente, José Miguel
AU - Lauterbach, Rodolfo
PY - 2008/6
Y1 - 2008/6
N2 - In this paper we study the impact of innovative activities on employment in Chile. We closely follow a previous work by Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse and Peters (2005) who developed an empirical strategy based on Jaumandreu (2003) which accounts for differences between product and process innovations. Using firm-level micro-data for the period 1998-2001, we find that product innovations affect employment positively and significantly. On the other hand, there is no evidence to suggest that process innovations significantly affect employment after controlling for investment and sectoral patterns.
AB - In this paper we study the impact of innovative activities on employment in Chile. We closely follow a previous work by Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse and Peters (2005) who developed an empirical strategy based on Jaumandreu (2003) which accounts for differences between product and process innovations. Using firm-level micro-data for the period 1998-2001, we find that product innovations affect employment positively and significantly. On the other hand, there is no evidence to suggest that process innovations significantly affect employment after controlling for investment and sectoral patterns.
KW - Employment
KW - Instrumental variables methods
KW - Process innovation
KW - Product innovation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=46949096946&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09578810802060744
DO - 10.1080/09578810802060744
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:46949096946
SN - 0957-8811
VL - 20
SP - 318
EP - 329
JO - European Journal of Development Research
JF - European Journal of Development Research
IS - 2
ER -