The role of business subsidies in job-creation start-ups, gazelles and imcumbents

Our data concerning the whole Finnish company population from the years 2003-2008 suggest that the impacts of business subsidies on employment growth differ more between high-growth start-ups and other firms than between start-ups and over five years old incumbents. All subsidies seem to relate positively to the contemporary employment growth both among start-ups and incumbents. Furthermore, our data show that both the employment of start-ups and older incumbents receiving employment or other subsidies grow more than that of non-subsidized firms after subsidy reception. Instead, we find that business subsidies do not provide significant further boost for the contemporary or after-subsidy growth of gazelles. There are apparently some other factors dominating the growth of young high-growth firms making them to grow strongly, in many cases, with or without subsidies.

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Serie
Discussion Papers no. 1246
Datum
2011
Nyckelord
yritystuet, työ- ja elinkeinopolitiikka, kasvu, Suomi
Nyckelord
public subsidies, technology policy, growth, Finland
JEL
J23,L10,O33
Sidor
34
Pris
10 €
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Språk
Engelska