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Innovator Mobility in Finland and Denmark

Bagger, Jesper; Maliranta, Mika; Määttänen, Niku; … - 2016

innovation are quickly matched to innovators. The mobility of innovators is also important for positive knowledge spillovers to …Workers have different abilities in research, development and innovation (R&D&I) activities. Firms have different … “prospects for innovation”. Innovation is facilitated by matching innovators, i.e. workers that are specialized in R&D&I to firms …

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Maahanmuuttajien yritystoiminnan merkitys Suomen työllisyyden ja tuottavuuden yritysdynamiikalle

Maliranta, Mika; Nurmi, Satu - 2019

We examine the growth of real value added, labour input and labour productivity of immigrant-owned firms in Finland in 2007–2016. In our analysis we use the so-called FLOWN (Finnish Longitudinal OWNer-Employer-Employee) data by Statistics Finland that allows linking register information on...

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Asevelvollisuuden kustannukset

Kaitila, Ville; Määttänen, Niku - 2021

We describe the costs of the conscription system from different perspectives. In particular, we consider the definition of opportunity cost related to the service time of conscripts. This is a cost that is not directly reflected in the state budget. In addition, we review related literature and...

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Refugees' integration in the Austrian labour market: Occupational mobility and job-skills mismatch

Leitner, Sandra M.; Landesmann, Michael - 2020

wiiw publishes a detailed study on occupational mobility and job-skills mismatch of the recent wave of refugees from the Middle East (predominantly from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran) in the Austrian labour market. The study is based on two waves of an extensive survey of refugees conducted...

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Net migration and its skill composition in the Western Balkan countries between 2010 and 2019: Results from a cohort approach

Leitner, Sandra M. - 2021

In our analysis we applied the newly developed 'cohort approach' to the six Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia) for the period 2010-2019 to shed light on the total extent and skill composition of net migration,...

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Problematik der Arbeitsmarktintegration von geflüchteten in Österreich in Zeiten der Coronakrise: Sonderauswertung des FIMAS Flüchtlingspanels

Leitner, Sandra M.; Landesmann, Michael - 2021

Diese Studie analysiert Effekte der Coronakrise auf die Arbeitsmarktintegration von in Österreich lebenden Asylberechtigten und subsidiär Schutzberechtigten aus den Herkunftsländern Syrien, Afghanistan, Irak und Iran. Die Analyse basiert auf einem Panel von Flüchtlingen, die sowohl an der...

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Wiiw studies on the integration of Middle Eastern refugees in Austria, based on FIMAS surveys and register-based labour market career data

Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M.; Jestl, Stefan; … - 2023

This Policy Note reports on the analyses undertaken in a number of wiiw Working Papers that are the output of two projects financed by the Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank (Project no. 18474 and no. 17166). Four of the papers are based on survey data from the FIMAS dataset, which...

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Innovation, Firm Risk and Industry Productivity

Maliranta, Mika; Määttänen, Niku - 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 …

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Firm Subsidies, Wages and Labor Mobility

Maliranta, Mika; Määttänen, Niku; Pajarinen, Mika - 2016

diffusion of knowledge between firms. Non-innovation subsidies, in contrast, appear to support established industry structures …The bulk of innovation subsidies in Finland are allocated to firms in industries where the employment share of … among young firms. At the firm level, an increase in innovation subsidies is typically associated with an inflow of …

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