Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Zhou, H.
Author-Name-Last: Zhou
Author-Name-First: Haibo
Author-Name: Dekker, R.
Author-Name-Last: Dekker
Author-Name-First: Ronald
Author-Name: Kleinknecht, A.
Author-Name-Last: Kleinknecht
Author-Name-First: Alfred
Title: Flexible Labor and Innovation Performance: Evidence from Longitudinal Firm-Level Data
Abstract: Firms with high shares of workers on fixed-term contracts have significantly higher sales of imitative new products but perform significantly worse on sales of inno¬va¬tive new products (“first on the market”). High functional flexibility in “insider-outsider” la¬bor markets enhances a firm’s new product sales, as do training efforts and highly edu¬ca¬¬ted personnel. We find weak evidence that larger and older firms have higher new pro¬duct sales than do younger and smaller firms. Our findings should be food for thought to eco-nomists making unqualified pleas for the deregulation of labor markets.
Creation-Date: 2010-01-21
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/18037/ERS-2010-007-ORG.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:eureri
Number: ERS-2010-007-ORG
Classification-JEL: M, M13, O31, O32
Keywords: J5, M5, O15, O31, OSA longitudinal dataset, SMEs, innovation performance, new product sales, numerical flexibility
Handle: RePEc:ems:eureri:18037