Innovation and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

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dc.contributor.authorPorath, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorNabachwa, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorAgasha, Ester
dc.contributor.authorKijjambu Nsambu, Frederick
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-02T18:31:36Z
dc.date.available2022-05-02T18:31:36Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe debate on the role of innovation in employment growth is still inconclusive with the available literature focusing largely on industrialised economies. With this concern, we examine the potential of innovations in creating permanent full-time jobs in registered manufacturing companies in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by fitting the model of Van Reenen (1997) to a two-period panel of 687 manufacturing firms. Our paper is the first to examine the impact of innovation on employment with a particular focus on SSA and the first to apply a panel data approach to a larger set of developing countries. Our findings indicate that in the past, innovative firms created more jobs compared to non-innovative ones when controlling for sales, wages, time-invariant firms and country specifics. Likening the results with emerging or developing economies outside of SSA, we find that the effect is considerably larger in SSA than in other regions. As a consequence, we recommend that SSA governments strengthen their technological adaption and adoption mechanisms in their manufacturing sectors to foster innovations. Nonetheless, as a way to discourage imitations (which may not be well aligned to the production demands in SSA), governments are encouraged to invest in sector-specific research and development.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPorath, Daniel; Nabachwa, Sarah; Agasha, Ester; Kijjambu, Nsambu Frederick (2021) : Innovation and employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, UASM Discussion Paper Series, No. 10/2021, University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Mainzen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/3139
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Applied Sciences Mainzen_US
dc.subjectInnovationen_US
dc.subjectEmploymenten_US
dc.subjectSub Saharan Africaen_US
dc.subjectPanel modelen_US
dc.subjectEnterprise Surveyen_US
dc.titleInnovation and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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