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Impact of Public R&D Financing on Employment

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Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö (ETLA, the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy)
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This study analyses how public R&D financing impacts the labour demand of companies. To our knowledge, no previous studies have distinguished the impact between a firm’s global and domestic employment. Our company-level panel data covers a period from 1997 to 2002. The statistical method employed in the study takes into account the possibility that receiving public support may be an endogenous factor. Our results suggest that public R&D financing increases both group-level and domestic R&D employment. We also analysed the impact of public R&D funding on employment other than in the R&D area, and found that it is not affected by public funding. It is possible, however, that such funding has an impact in the longer term.

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Paper provided by European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes in its series Economics Working Papers with number 039.

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Keywords: Public finance; R&D; employment; research and development; substitute; endogeneity;

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