Recent research has underscored the prominent role played by a small fraction of fast-growing new firms in contributing to aggregate net employment growth. While it is typically assumed that those firms experience this superior performance thanks to their ability in undertaking technological innovation, few empirical studies have explicitly addressed this issue. This article examines the innovation-employment nexus for start-ups using the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), a unique longitudinal dataset tracking a single cohort of US firms founded in 2004. Results based on fixed effects panel quantile regressions indicate an overall positive but heterogeneous effect of innovation activities on the conditional employment growth distribution. More in detail, the findings reveal that both research and development (R&D) and patents have a positive association with employment growth especially for those new firms experiencing high-growth.

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（高增长）新公司的创新和创造就业机会

最近的研究强调了少数快速增长的新公司在促进总净就业增长中所发挥的显著作用。虽然通常认为这些公司由于其进行技术创新的能力而获得了这种优异的业绩，但是很少有实证研究明确地解决了这个问题。本文使用考夫曼公司调查（KFS）来研究初创企业的创新就业关系，这是一个独特的纵向数据集，可追踪单个成立于2004年的美国公司。基于固定影响面板分位数回归的结果表明总体上是积极的，但存在异质性活动对有条件就业增长分布的影响。更详细地，研究结果表明研发（R＆