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Industry restructuring in the ICT sector – What does labor mobility tell us about skill relatedness and knowledge spillovers?

Nikulainen, Tuomo; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

Industries go through different phases of evolution where old skills become obsolete and new skills arecrucial for the industrial renewal process. Industry evolution is usually addressed from the perspectives of production and exports, leaving one factor largely unexplored: human capital....

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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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Is Inter-firm Labor Mobility a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from a Linked Employer-Employee Panel

Maliranta, Mika; Mohnen, Pierre; Rouvinen, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

diffusion of R&D-generated knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, hiring workers from others R&D labs to ones own does not seem to be … productivity and profitability. This is interpreted as evidence that these workers transmit knowledge that can be readily copied …

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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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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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Mobility of ideas for innovation: The role of inventor-specific knowledge flows

Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2015

words, the larger the knowledge pool of an inventor entering (leaving) the firm, the more the firm’s innovation performance … innovation coopetition (i.e., collaboration with a firm’s competitors) is an important source of knowledge spillovers … to the mobility of individual inventors, or that the knowledge flows transmitted are sticky inventor-specific. In other …

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