ABSTRACT

This paper studies the effects of process innovation and product innovation on firm-level employment in South Africa. We contribute through two novel extensions, analyzing how export status and the degree of novelty of innovation affect the innovation-employment relationship. We find process innovation to be more employment generating than product innovation. Furthermore, both process and product innovations have larger positive effects on employment growth for exporting firms relative to non-exporting firms. Finally, firms that introduce radical innovations that are new to the market, experience a higher positive employment effect than firms that introduce innovations that are new to only the firm.

摘要

本文研究了过程创新和产品创新对南非企业层面就业的影响。我们通过两个新颖的扩展做出贡献，分析出口状态和创新的新颖程度如何影响创新与就业关系。我们发现流程创新比产品创新更能创造就业机会。此外，相对于非出口企业，流程和产品创新对出口企业的就业增长有更大的积极影响。最后，引入市场新的激进创新的公司比引入仅对公司来说是新的创新的公司具有更高的积极就业效应。