The effect of innovations on employment at the firm level is theoretically ambiguous. The present paper analyses this relationship using panel data on German start-up firms as well as German patent data. It employs different indicators of patenting activity. By applying fixed-effects and...

Lange Zeit wurde der technische Fortschritt als mitverantwortlich für die ansteigende Arbeitslosigkeit angesehen. Mittlerweile hat sich eine andere Sichtweise durchgesetzt. Wie wurde früher „technologische Arbeitslosigkeit“ erklärt? Welcher Innovationsbegriff lag den entsprechenden...

This study was prepared by Stefan Lachenmaier while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in March 2007 and was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The subject of this study is an econometric...