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Are the more educated receiving more training? Evidence from Thailand

Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - 2002

This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off the job, using a unique dataset based on a survey of Thai employees conducted in the summer of 2001. We find a significant and negative relationship between educational...

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Within and Between Firm Trends in Job Polarization: Role of Globalization and Technology

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Maczulskij, Terhi; Maliranta, Mika - 2016

This paper analyzes occupational polarization within and across firms using comprehensive matched employer-employee panel data from Finland. The occupational distribution in Finland has been polarizing over the last few decades, with mid-level production and clerical jobs eroding while low-skill...

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Business Owners, Employees and Firm Performance

Maliranta, Mika; Nurmi, Satu - 2016

firm. This can be interpreted as evidence of knowledge spillover through labor mobility. Strikingly, firms established in …

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Are the More Educated Receiving More Training? Evidence from Thailand

Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - 2002

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...

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Education as a Tool for the Economic Integration of Migrants

De Paola, Maria; Brunello, Giorgio - 2016

socio-economic background, in others (Finland, Austria, Belgium and Portugal) the factors driving the gap are more complex …

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

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School quality and family background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2003

We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the 1980s have had a significant impact on the educational attainment and the labor market returns of a...

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Books are forever: Early life conditions, education and lifetime income

Brunello, Giorgio; Weber, Guglielmo; Weiss, Christoph T. - 2012

In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in rural or urban areas during childhood and between individuals who had access to many or few books at age ten. We instrument years of education using reforms of...

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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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