Journal
RESEARCH POLICY
Volume 46, Issue 4, Pages 836-852Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2017.02.006
Keywords
Exports; R&D; Firm growth; Worker flows
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- Project 5x1000 per la Ricerca [F88C13000340001]
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We study firms' export and R&D activities and their effects on employment growth and worker flows for a sample of Italian SMEs operating in the manufacturing industry. After accounting for the under-reporting of R&D in SMEs, our quantile regressions reveal that: (i) R&D is associated with higher employment growth rates, higher hiring rates and lower separation rates; (ii) R&D-induced exports are negatively related to firm employment growth and hirings and positively related to separations; and (iii) pure exports are not a driver of employment growth and worker flows. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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