Innovation, creative destruction, and structural change: firm-level evidence from European countries

"The shift of employment from lower to higher productive firms is an important driver for structural change and industry dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by product innovation may be offset by employment l...

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Main Authors: Dachs, Bernhard, Hud, Martin, Koehler, Christian, Peters, Bettina
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: Mannheim 2016
ZEW
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-936712475499-innovation,-creative-destructi.htm
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Summary:"The shift of employment from lower to higher productive firms is an important driver for structural change and industry dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by product innovation may be offset by employment losses in related products, known as ‘cannibalisation’ or ‘business stealing’ effects in the literature, by employment losses from process and organisational innovation and by general productivity increases. The paper investigates this effect empirically with a large dataset from the European Community Innovation Survey (CIS). We find that employment gains and losses increase with technology intensity of the sector. High-technology manufacturing shows the strongest employment gains and losses from innovation, followed by knowledge-intensive services, low-technology manufacturing and less knowledge-intensive services. The net contribution of innovation to employment growth is mostly positive, an exception being manufacturing industries in recession periods."
Physical Description:40 p.
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