The Effects of Publicly Funded Innovation Activities on Working Conditions in Austrian Firms

This research illustrates the impact of publicly funded innovations on the whole staff at the firm level with special emphasis on labour flows, labour turnover, wages and apprenticeship training activities. We match FFG and Aurelia data with social security data for the first time in order to generate a typology of publicly funded innovative firms and to create working conditions indicators on firm level. According to impact analysis results, publicly funded innovation activities determine the work force. Publicly funded innovative firms engage more workers, more men than women and more young skilled workers. Newly hired workers seem to be engaged longer.