Employment and technological innovation: Evidence from UK Manufacturing firms

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: VanReenen, J
• 署名单位: University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/209833
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 255-284
• 关键词: Panel data; unions; GROWTH; LABOR

摘要

This article uses British firm-level panel data on actual innovative activity drawn from different statistical sources to identify the effect of technical change on jobs. Previous work tends to find positive associations of proxies for technical change and employment, but such studies suffer from various statistical drawbacks. In this study, even when one controls for fixed effects, dynamics, and endogeneity, innovations have a positive and significant effect on employment, which persists over several years. There seems to be little direct role for spillover effects from industry innovations, or any role for industry wages or union power.