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ICT and occupation-based measures of organisational change: Firm and employee outcomes
Böckerman, Petri; Kauhanen, Antti; Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012
Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of organisational change within firms. With these measures, we directly address the complementarities between ICT and organisational changes. Our results support the view that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987369
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566051
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Innovation, Firm Risk and Industry Productivity
Maliranta, Mika; Määttänen, Niku - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2014
Radical innovations require risk-taking. However, it is hard to find an objective measure for innovation investments … that would take riskiness into account. In this paper, we investigate how a simple measure of firms’ innovation investments …. We then build a simple model where firms’ innovation activities and firm risk are interrelated. We use the model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987122