Print Email Facebook Twitter Flexible labor and innovation performance: Evidence from longitudinal firm-level data Title Flexible labor and innovation performance: Evidence from longitudinal firm-level data Author Kleinknecht, A. Dekker, R. Zhou, H. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Date 2009-05-01 Abstract Firms with high shares of workers on fixed-term contracts have significantly higher sales of imitative new products but perform significantly worse on sales of innovative new products (“first on the market”). High functional flexibility in “insider-outsider” labor markets enhances a firm’s new product sales, as do training efforts and highly educated personnel. We find weak evidence that larger and older firms have higher new product sales than do younger and smaller firms. Our findings should be food for thought to economists making unqualified pleas for the deregulation of labor markets. Subject Innovation performancenew product salesnumerical flexibility To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8a23ad65-9905-49d7-87b8-fd7dca2eff27 Publisher Delft University of Technology ISSN 1877-3834 Source EMI Discussion Paper Series #2009-05 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) A. Kleinknecht et al Files PDF EMI_Discussion_Paper_Seri ... 009-05.pdf 258.83 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8a23ad65-9905-49d7-87b8-fd7dca2eff27/datastream/OBJ/view