Attila LINDNER – Balázs MURAKÖZY – Balázs REIZER
Skill-Biased Innovation Activities: Evidence from Hungarian Firms
This paper investigates the consequences of innovation activities. We exploit a unique firm-level survey linked to employee data from Hungary that allows us to examine broadly defined innovation activities including the introduction of new products, process innovation and organizational innovation. We show that these innovation activities are skill-biased insofar as they lead to an increase both in the share of college educated workers and in their wage premium. The skill bias is not solely driven by high-novelty, R\&D-based innovation, but also, to a comparable extent, by the low-novelty kind. Among low-novelty innovation types, product and process innovation are the most skill-biased, while organizational innovation is less so. These results highlight that low-novelty innovations contribute substantially to wage inequality.
Challenging Science and Innovation Policy Utrecht, 1-3 June 2022, hosted by Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University The “European Forum for Studies ... Read More »
Published in ‘Does EU Membership Facilitate Convergence? The Expierience of the EU’s Eastern Enlargement – Volume II’ Edited by Landesmann, Michael, Székely, Istvan P. ... Read More »
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