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Technological Innovation and Employment Reallocation.
- Source :
- LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics & Industrial Relations; Dec2000, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p547, 44p
- Publication Year :
- 2000
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Abstract
- Abstract. The paper describes the dynamics of employment at a firm and sector level in French industry and examines how far technological innovation can give account of it. We use a sample of 15,186 firms, over the period 1986-90. The two facts we want to explain at a firm and sector level are the net change in employment and the micro turmoil (transfers between competing firms). Innovating firms and sectors create jobs more than others over the medium run (5 years). Process innovation is more about job creation than product innovation at the firm level, but the converse is true at the sector level. This paradox is probably due to substitution effects (creative destruction). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EMPLOYMENT
TECHNOLOGICAL innovations
INDUSTRIES
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 11217081
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics & Industrial Relations
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 4891500
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9914.00146