The greener the better? Job creation effects of environmentally-friendly technological change

Gagliardi, Luisa; Marin, Giovanni; Miriello, Caterina

doi:10.1093/icc/dtv054

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“…On the strength of these previous contributions, we argue that, despite their higher costs (Gagliardi et al 2016), new green technologies could provide firms with 'extra returns' compared to non-green technologies. These extra returns can be exploited (e.g.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…More relevant to our analysis is the patent-based study carried out in Italy (2001Italy ( -2008 by Gagliardi et al (2016), showing that eco-innovator firms have more employment growth than their non-green counterparts. Similarly, Colombelli et al (2015) studied patents of more than 400,000 firms in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Sweden over the period of 2002-2011 and found that eco-innovation capabilities drive sales growth more than 'generic' ones.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…1 Supportive evidence has been mainly obtained by examining the relationship between eco-innovations and firm growth through the lens of the technology-jobs nexus, usually in a non-longitudinal setting (e.g. Gagliardi et al 2016;Rennings and Zwick 2002). However, with few exceptions, these analyses do not address the 'growth premium' attached to green technologies vis-à-vis the non-green ones, nor do they pay attention to the inner complexity and dynamics of the phenomenon.…”

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This paper investigates the relationship between green/non-green technologies and firm growth. By combining the literature on eco-innovations, industrial organisation and entrepreneurial studies, we examine the dependence of this relationship on the pace at which firms grow and the age of the firm. From a dataset of 5498 manufacturing firms in Italy for the period of 2000-2008, longitudinal fixed effects quantile models are estimated, in which the firm's age is set to moderate the effects of green and non-green patents on employment growth. We find that the positive effect of green technologies on growth is greater than that of non-green technologies. However, this result does not apply to struggling and rapidly growing firms. With fast-growing (above the median) firms, age moderates the growth effect of green technologies. Inconsistent with the extant literature, this moderation effect is positive: firm experience appears important for the growth benefits of green technologies, possibly relative to the complexity of their management.

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“…However, academics know much less about the potential complementarities between environmental innovation and employment in terms of economic and firms' behavior. In this regard, numerous works focus on the drivers of environmental innovation [2][3][4][5][6], but empirical research about the relationship between environmental innovation and employment is still relatively scarce [7][8][9][10][11][12]. Even though the analysis of influence of eco-innovation on performance still faces relevant theoretical and empirical limitations [13], the current available statistical information allows achieving more insights on drivers and synergies between eco-innovation and employment growth.…”

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Environmental Innovation and Employment: Drivers and Synergies

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Numerous empirical studies focus on the drivers of environmental innovation or their potential employment effects. Nevertheless, we have scarce knowledge about whether factors that influence eco-innovation and employment generation are related. The main purpose is to analyze the synergies between eco-innovation and employment using a sample of more than 6000 innovative Spanish manufacturing and service firms. Using different econometric procedures, the main findings show that size, R&D and export influence eco-innovation and employment in the same direction, while age, belonging to a group, public subsidies and internal and external knowledge sources exert a different effect. Thus, older firms create less employment but have a high probability of being environmental innovators compared with younger firms. Furthermore, the size of the company moderates the positive role of eco-innovation on employment growth, while young firms not belonging to a group (eco-entrepreneurs) contribute more to employment growth than old firms belonging to a parent firm. Implications for scholars, managers and policy makers in terms of sustainable and economic growth are made.

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“…A couple of studies recently point out that environmental innovation can be a driver for jobs growth (Licht and Peters 2013), and may even provide more new employment than other types of innovation (Gagliardi, Marin and Miriello 2016). These results may also shed a different light on the relationship between innovation, jobs growth and (environmental) regulation (Vona et al 2015) by pointing to employment gains from regulation.…”

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Innovation, creative destruction and structural change: firm-level evidence from European countries

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Die Dis cus si on Pape rs die nen einer mög lichst schnel len Ver brei tung von neue ren For schungs arbei ten des ZEW. Die Bei trä ge lie gen in allei ni ger Ver ant wor tung der Auto ren und stel len nicht not wen di ger wei se die Mei nung des ZEW dar.Dis cus si on Papers are inten ded to make results of ZEW research prompt ly avai la ble to other eco no mists in order to encou ra ge dis cus si on and sug gesti ons for revi si ons. The aut hors are sole ly respon si ble for the con tents which do not neces sa ri ly repre sent the opi ni on of the ZEW. Innovation, Creative Destruction and Structural Change: Firm-level Evidence from European Countries AbstractThe shift of employment from lower to higher productive firms is an important driver for structural change and industry dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by product innovation may be offset by employment losses in related products, known as 'cannibalisation' or 'business stealing' effects in the literature, by employment losses from process and organisational innovation and by general productivity increases. The paper investigates this effect empirically with a large dataset from the European Community Innovation Survey (CIS). We find that employment gains and losses increase with technology intensity of the sector. Hightechnology manufacturing shows the strongest employment gains and losses from innovation, followed by knowledge-intensive services, low-technology manufacturing and less knowledge-intensive services.The net contribution of innovation to employment growth is mostly positive, an exception being manufacturing industries in recession periods.JEL: O33, J23, C26, D2

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The greener the better? Job creation effects of environmentally-friendly technological change

Cited by 82 publications

References 63 publications

‘Better late than never’: the interplay between green technology and age for firm growth

‘Better late than never’: the interplay between green technology and age for firm growth

Environmental Innovation and Employment: Drivers and Synergies

Innovation, creative destruction and structural change: firm-level evidence from European countries

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