RT Journal Article
T1 Innovation and job quality. A firm-level exploration
A1 Grande-Martín, Rafael
A1 Muñoz de Bustillo LLorente, Rafael
A1 Fernández-Macías, Enrique
A1 Antón, José Ignacio
K1 Empleo - Análisis
K1 Empleo -  Efectos de las innovaciones tecnológicas
AB The aim of this paper is to investigate the relation between innovation and job quality at the firm level for a large sample of companies in 32 European countries. Using data from the Third European Company Survey (ECS-2013) we develop indices of innovation and job quality that are later used to quantitatively explore their relationship. The results show significant differences in the relationship between the type of innovation (process, product, marketing and organizational) at the firm level and job quality, with a clear positive association only in the case of process innovation. Labor relations, the evolution of employment, outsourcing or the demographic characteristics of firm are important mediating factors. In particular, the analysis suggests that union representation plays an important role in facilitating the translation of innovation into higher job quality in the firm.
PB Elsevier
YR 2020
FD 2020-05
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29696
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29696
LA eng
NO Grande, R., R. Muñoz de Bustillo, E. Fernández-Macías y J. Antón. (2020). Innovation and job quality. A firm-level exploration. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 54: 130-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2020.04.002
NO Grande, Muñoz de Bustillo and Fernández Macías are grateful to the European Commission for funding the Horizon 2020 Euro- Society-2014 project “Quality of Jobs and Innovation Generated Employment Outcomes”(QuInnE). Antón thanks the support from the Ramón Areces Foundation Grants for Research Projects in So- cial Sciences 2018 (17th edition). The views expressed in this arti- cle are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission. The authors also wish to acknowledge the suggestions made by two anonymous referees that contributed to the improvement of the paper.
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