Employment stability and corporate innovation

Syungjin Han; Chang Hyun Kim

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Employment stability and corporate innovation

Syungjin Han (First Author), Chang Hyun Kim (Participant Author)

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We present a novel measure of firm-level employment stability, defined as one minus a firm's employment elasticity with respect to its sales. We find that employment stability is positively associated with innovation output, measured by the number of patents and subsequent citations, and the originality and generality of the patents. Our findings suggest that employment stability enhances employees' incentives for innovation by providing tolerance for failure.

Original language	English
Journal	Applied Economics Letters
Issue number	Early Access
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2020.1716936
Publication status	Published - 2020

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sjhan7@hongik.ac.kr

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new faculty research support fund of the College of Business School at Hongik University

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Employment stability
innovation
patenting
tolerance for failure

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