@techreport{0e4c6f8fc4664228b8307d004d83d1ab,
title = "Employment Growth in Europe:The Roles of Innovation, Local Job Multipliers and Institutions",
abstract = "This paper shows that high-tech employment – broadly defined as all workers in high-tech sectors but also workers with STEM degrees in low-tech sectors- has increased in Europe over the past decade. Moreover, we estimate that every high-tech job in a region creates five additional low-tech jobs in that region because of the existence of a local high-tech job multiplier. The paper also shows how the presence of a local high-tech job multiplier results in convergence is happening at a glacial pace, and some suggestive evidence is presented that lifting several institutional barriers to innovation in Europe{\textquoteright}s lagging regions would speed up convergence leading to faster high-tech as well as overall employment while also addressing Europe{\textquoteright}s regional inequalities.",
author = "M. Goos and Jozef Konings and Marieke Vanderweyer",
year = "2015",
language = "English",
series = "TKI Discussion paper series",
publisher = "UU USE Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute",
number = "10",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "UU USE Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute",
}