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Occupational Segregation during the the 1980s and 1990s - The Case of Finnish Manufacturing

Napari, Sami - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2005

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Marginal Intra Industry Trade Expansion and Productivity Growth

Kaitila, Ville - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

We use the concept of marginal intra-industry trade (MIIT) to analyse the effect of trade expansion on labour productivity growth across 23 EU countries and 94 manufacturing sectors in 1995-2005. The highest MIIT index values are found in sectors producing differentiated goods as well as in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749284

Productivity, Hours Worked, and Tax/Benefit Systems in Europe and Beyond

Kaitila, Ville - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

We analyse the development of labour productivity and hours worked by the working-aged population in the EU25 countries and other OECD countries in 1960-2004. We emphasise the possible effects of taxes, benefits and other labour-market variables. First, we describe the trends in productivity and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700261

Age, Technology and Labour Costs

Daveri, Francesco; Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

Is the process of workforce aging a burden or a blessing for the firm? Our paper seeks to answer this question by providing evidence on the age-productivity and age-earnings profiles for a sample of plants in three manufacturing industries (forest, industrial machinery and electronics) in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700268

Training and Hiring Strategies to Improve Firm Performance

Maliranta, Mika; Asplund, Rita - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

We study how upgrading the skills of the personnel affects a firms performance. Two different strategies are examined : 1) providing formal training and 2) strategic recruitment and separation policy. The use of register-based longitudinal employer-employee data supplemented with a survey on...

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Innovation Does Not Equal R&D. Strategic Innovation Profiles and Firm Growth

Ketokivi, Mikko; Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2010

In this paper, we examine firm innovation and its link to firm growth. Instead of using the conventional … conceptualization and operationalization of innovation in terms of the R&D budget, we use a more elaborate 12-dimensional … conceptualization, which takes into account also the non-technological aspects of innovation. The 12-dimensional operationaliza …

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A Comparative Survey of Structural Characteristics of Finnish University Departments

Deschryvere, Matthias - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

This descriptive paper analyses structural characteristics of Finnish university departments (FIDs) and benchmarks them against foreign university departments from Scandinavia, the UK and the US (FODs). In the first place the study aims to reveal information on differences in department size. In...

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The Impact of Technological and Non-Technological Innovations on Firm Growth

Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Martikainen, Olli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

This study investigates the relationship between innovations and firm growth, based on the data of Finnish firms operating in the software industry. We find that in terms of turnover and employment, firms with only technological innovations do not grow more rapidly than other firms. However,...

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