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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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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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Air Pollution and Entrepreneurship

Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2022

We examine the causal effect of air pollution on an individual's propensity for entrepreneurship in China. Our preferred model, which employs an instrumental variable approach to address endogeneity arising from sorting into entrepreneurship and locational choices, suggests that exposure to...

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Air Pollution and Entrepreneurship

Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2022

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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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The wage premium of foreign education: New evidence from Australia

Chan, Gavin; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - 2012

We study whether Australian employers recognise immigrants' education acquired abroad, and if so how. Using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We find substantially higher returns from human capital...

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The Productivity Impact of Business Mobility: International Evidence

Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National...

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Business Visits, Knowledge Diffusion and Productivity

Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016

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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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