This paper studies the degree to which innovation by Costa Rican manufacturing firms creates or displaces employment …, how different innovation strategies affect employment, and how these effects vary by firm size and type of employment … process innovations on employment growth. Particular attention is paid to identifying innovation impacts on employment …

This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries … model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: make only (R&D), buy only … employment; the "make and buy" strategy comes in second. Similar results are found for small firms. These results highlight the …

tests this assumption. It compares the impact of each type of support on employment and the type of employment measured by …

finance and business regulations this occurs by reducing the employment growth of all firms, particularly micro and small … firms. On the other hand, corruption and poor access to infrastructure reduce employment growth by affecting the growth of …

our results suggest that this positive effect is only for SMEs. In terms of employment and sales, we find that export … significant increase in sales and employment. …