This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is … typically associated with better export performance at the firm level due to productivity enhancements and new products. However …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically …

export induced (i.e., all labor demand created by foreign entities buying products exported by the home country) - we provide … services that are required by these tradable sectors, to all jobs in the economy, which we call the trade-linked employment … measures is associated with: international coordination of macroeconomic policies (export-induced labor demand), currency …