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Spatial variations in intergenerational transmission of self-employment
Niittykangas, Hannu; Tervo, Hannu - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 3, pp. 319-332
-employed parent. This paper analyses occupational inheritance among self-employed families in Finland. Longitudinal micro data from …
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Does central bank independence really matter? Re-assessing the role of the independence of monetary policy-makers in macroeconomic outcomes
Zervoyianni, Athina; Anastasiou, Athanasios; … - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 8 (2014) 4, pp. 427-473
Despite the growing literature, central bank independence (CBI) is still one of the most controversial and frequently discussed issues in macroeconomics. This paper re-examines the role of central bank independence in macroeconomic outcomes, seeking to add to the existing empirical literature in...
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Is price stability enough? Macroeconomic performance of inflation targeting in developing countries
Ozdemir, Metin; Tuzunturk, Selim - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 1 (2009) 4, pp. 352-372
Since the beginning of the 1990s, both industrialised and developing countries have adopted inflation targeting as a monetary policy strategy. Their central banks have designed their legal mandates to instutionalise monetary policy to aim only at price stability. In this sense, price stability...
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Adopting the Municipal Enterprise Form in Finland: Core Dilemmas in the Transformation of Public Healthcare Organizations
Kuoppakangas, Päivikki - In: Public Organization Review 13 (2013) 2, pp. 155-165
Using a combination of institutional and dilemma theory, this article maps the core dilemmas underlying the transformation of three public healthcare organizations into municipal enterprises. The results concerning the expectations and outcomes of the processes of change show that identified...
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Catching a wave: the formation of co-operatives in Finnish regions
Kalmi, Panu - In: Small Business Economics 41 (2013) 1, pp. 295-313
This paper compares the formation rates of co-operatives and conventional firms in Finland using regional data. The …
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Marriage Duration and Divorce: The Seven-Year Itch or a Lifelong Itch?
Kulu, Hill - In: Demography 51 (2014) 3, pp. 881-893
of the rising-falling pattern of divorce risk. Using register data from Finland and applying multilevel hazard models …
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From economic to environmental sustainability: the forest management debate in 20th century Finland and Sweden
Siiskonen, Harri - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 15 (2013) 5, pp. 1323-1336
in Finland’s and Sweden’s national economies. There was however no consensus among forest owners and forestry experts …. There are three main reasons for making a case study of Finland and Sweden: Firstly, the forest sector has played an …
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Ensuring Parliamentary Gender Equality Through a New Zipper Method: An Application to Finland
Delgado-Márquez, Blanca; Ramírez-González, Victoriano; … - In: Social Indicators Research 116 (2014) 2, pp. 475-492
, the method is applied to the elections held over the last two decades in Finland. Results reveal that parity in gender … representation increases at global, party, and constituency levels throughout all the parliamentary elections in Finland, even …
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Diffusion, social structure and functioning of scientific rural networks: comparison of European and Finish examples
Toivo, Muilu; Niina, Kotavaara - In: European Countryside 3 (2011) 1, pp. 66-82
Rural Studies Network of Finland and the international case is the European Rural Development Network. Both networks started …
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Rural development within the context of agricultural and socio-economic trends – the case of Finland
Olli, Voutilainen; Olli, Wuori - In: European Countryside 4 (2012) 4, pp. 283-302
The aim of this article is to explore the relationship between agricultural and socio-economic development in Finnish rural areas (later expressed as rural development) since 1995. The statistical analyses being employed are mainly based on municipal (i.e. LAU-2 level) income, employment and...
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