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Changed Labour Market Conditions for the Highly Educated? - A Study of Postgraduate Degree Holders in Finland 1990-2004

Stén, Susanna - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

The 1990s was a turbulent period for Finnish postgraduate education. The education system was reformed and the number of postgraduate students who graduated every year increased at a fast pace. In this thesis doctorate and licentiate degree holders as a group, as well as how their labour market...

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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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Mapping of the PhDs in the Private Sector. A Literature Review

Stén, Susanna - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

employing PhDs can be divided into productivity and innovation effects as well as knowledge contributions from networking, and … for both the diffusion of knowledge in the economy and the development of the career and wage profiles of PhDs. Because of … the recent development, the existing knowledge gaps and the rapidly ageing research conducted up to this day, there is …

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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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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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