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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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Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap
Kritikos, Alexander S.; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014514478
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Decomposing productivity and wage effects of intra-establishment labor restructuring
Maliranta, Mika; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - 2005
Aggregate productivity growth can be decomposed into growth within establishments, between establishments, and the impact of entering and exiting establishments. We demonstrate that such a productivity decomposition formula can also be used for studying intra-establishment restructuring through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285081
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Training and hiring strategies to improve firm performance
Maliranta, Mika; Asplund, Rita - 2007
We study how upgrading the skills of the personnel affects a firm’s performance. Two different strategies are examined: 1) providing formal training and 2) strategic recruitment and separation policy. The use of register-based longitudinal employeremployee data supplemented with a survey on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285102
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037642
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Do foreign players change the nature of the game among local entrepreneurs?
Maliranta, Mika; Nurmi, Satu - 2004
less vulnerable to the foreign presence despite their possibly higher ability to adopt knowledge from foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284974