Resilient Regional Labour Markets as Triggers of Innovation Success during Crises: Perspective of EU Innovation Leaders

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Result on the web

<a href="https://intapi.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/bjes-2024-0015" target="_blank" >https://intapi.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/bjes-2024-0015</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/bjes-2024-0015" target="_blank" >10.2478/bjes-2024-0015</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Resilient Regional Labour Markets as Triggers of Innovation Success during Crises: Perspective of EU Innovation Leaders

Original language description

Despite the growing interest in the impact of economic crises on regional labour markets, innovation, and regional resilience, the relationship between these economic aspects remains under-researched in the context of these crises. This research aims to fill this gap by investigating how regional labour markets affect the innovation success of European Union countries. We focus on analysing the impact of female and youth unemployment, labour costs, and hours worked on the innovation success of 22 European Union countries over the period 2013–2021, with a special focus on countries identified as innovation leaders in the European Union. Using regression analysis, we find that higher female unemployment and lower hours worked have a positive effect on innovation success. Higher labour costs then have a negative impact on innovation success in the European Union but are not significant for the innovation leaders’ success, providing new insights into the complex relationship between the labour market and innovation success. Through a Difference-in-Differences analysis, we additionally demonstrate that there is a causal effect, revealing a greater decline in innovation success among innovation leaders with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the remaining (control) 18 European states. The study further highlights the critical role of targeted social and employment policies in enhancing innovation performance, emphasising the need for tailored strategies to support vulnerable labour market groups, and provides directions for future research to explore these dynamics in greater depth.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50600 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

TalTech Journal of European Studies

ISSN

2674-4600

e-ISSN

2674-4619

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

26-48

UT code for WoS article

001365757500013

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85213484546