Heterogeneity in the demand-growth relationship at the firm level. The role of demand sources and innovation/knowledge characteristics
| Autor: | Serenella Caravella, Dario Guarascio, Francesco Crespi, Matteo Tubiana |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Caravella, S., Crespi, F., Guarascio, D., Tubiana, M. |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Labour economics
business.industry 05 social sciences Public sector Employment growth Work (electrical) cluster analysis demand-pull sources firms-level growth Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business cluster analysi demand-pull source Demand growth Firms-level growth 050207 economics business General Economics Econometrics and Finance 050203 business & management |
| Popis: | This work investigates whether different demand sources (i.e. demand for the firms’ output from households, other firms and the public sector) have different effects on firms’ employment growth and whether the growth effects of the demand sources vary by the firms’ innovation/knowledge characteristics. Relying on a representative sample of Italian companies observed between 2012 and 2017, we find that companies serving prevalently other firms or the government as their main demand source tend to grow faster than firms selling final goods to households. However, the growth advantage is more robust for firms serving prevalently other firms as their main demand source. We also find that the relative growth advantage is more pronounced among innovation-intensive and knowledge-intensive firms supplying other firms prevalently. Our findings are robust to the inclusion of firm-level controls and time, sectoral and geographical dummies. Confirming one of the major insights of both the Keynesian and the Schumpeterian traditions, demand emerges as a key driver of growth, the effects of which are mediated by the firms’ innovation/knowledge characteristics. |
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