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Author-Name: Crespi, Gustavo
Author-Email: gcrespi@iadb.org
Author-Workplace-Name: Competitiveness and Innovation Division,
	 Inter-American Development Bank
Author-Name: Tacsir, Ezequiel
Author-Email: tacsir@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT/MGSoG
Title: Effects of innovation on employment in Latin America
Abstract: This study examines the impact of process and product innovation on
	 employment growth and composition in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and
	 Uruguay using micro data from innovation surveys. Based on the model put
	 forward by Harrison et al. (1998), employment growth is related to
	 process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to
	 innovative and unchanged products. Results show that compensation
	 effects are pervasive and that the introduction of new products is
	 associated with employment growth at the firm level. No evidence of
	 displacement effects due to the introduction of product innovations was
	 observed. With respect to the impact of innovation on employment
	 composition, there is scant evidence of a skill bias, although product
	 innovation is more complementary to skilled than to unskilled labour.    
Classification-JEL: O12, O14, O31, O33, O40, J21
Keywords:  innovation, employment, developing countries, Latin America, innovation
	 surveys
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2013
Number: 001
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2013/wp2013-001.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2013001