. This article examines the innovation-employment nexus for start-ups using the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), a unique … regressions indicate an overall positive but heterogeneous effect of innovation activities on the conditional employment growth … to aggregate net employment growth. While it is typically assumed that those firms experience this superior performance …

The effect of innovations on employment at the firm level is theoretically ambiguous. The present paper analyses this … positive effect on employment growth that is typically most pronounced in the second year after application. The effect seems …