Do Labor Market Regulations Affect the Link between Innovation and Employment?: Evidence from Latin America

IF 1.1 4区经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS

B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy Pub Date : 2018-07-01 DOI:10.18235/0001199

Laura Baensch, María Laura Lanzalot, G. Lotti, Rodolfo Stucchi

引用次数: 2

Abstract

The link between innovation and employment is at the center of the policy debate. This paper sheds light on how labor market regulations affect the relationship between different types of innovation and employment in Latin America. We estimate the model developed by Harrison et al. (2014) using Enterprise Surveys for 14 Latin American countries. We find that: (i) product innovations have a positive impact on employment growth; (ii) process innovations do not affect employment growth; (iii) more rigid labor market regulations (minimum wages and severance payments) reduce the effects of innovation.

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劳动力市场监管是否影响创新与就业之间的联系?来自拉丁美洲的证据

创新和就业之间的联系是政策辩论的核心。本文揭示了劳动力市场法规如何影响拉丁美洲不同类型创新与就业之间的关系。我们使用对14个拉丁美洲国家的企业调查来估计Harrison等人(2014)开发的模型。我们发现:(1)产品创新对就业增长有正向影响;(ii)流程创新不影响就业增长;(iii)更严格的劳动力市场法规(最低工资和遣散费)降低了创新的效果。

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B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy ECONOMICS-

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1.50

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11.10%

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