TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Barbieri, Laura
AU  - Piva, Mariacristina
AU  - Vivarelli, Marco
        TI  - R&D, Embodied Technological Change and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata
        PY  - 2016/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10354
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10354
        AB  - This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and embodied technological change (ETC). We use a novel panel dataset covering 265 innovative Italian firms over the period 1998-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures; however, this positive effect is barely significant when the sole in-house R&D expenditures are considered and fades away when ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities and R&D expenditures are totally due to firms operating in high-tech industries and large companies, while no job-creation due to technical change is detectable in traditional sectors and SMEs.
        KW  - technology
KW  - innovation
KW  - R&D
KW  - embodied technological change
KW  - employment
        ER  -