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We assess Finland’s competitiveness in the light of various, mainly short-term indicators. It turns out that the weak export market performance over the last few years is linked to the deterioration of profitability of production in Finland. A better export and employment performance requires...
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occupational structures when explaining productivity and profitability gaps between global and local firms. The findings indicate … reflected in their productivity, it is not as clearly reflected in their profitability.The findings imply that employees have … captured a dominant share of the productivity advantage of global firms. …
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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …
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This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manufacturing is competitive because …
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In a survey published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Frege (2002) evaluates research on the German works council from the perspective of several disciplines, including economics. Ultimately, she concludes that economic analysis of the works council has reached a ‘dead end’....
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) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …
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000 employees. In terms of firm size classes, the variances in profitability and productivity were large in software firms …. There are signs that middle-sized software firms (30-70 employees) suffer from lower than average productivity and … profitability, and their productivity growth rate has also been lower than in other size classes. On the whole, the labour …
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unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …
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technology. Hiring highly skilled workers is initially costly to firms but is productivity-enhancing in the long run. …
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productivity at company-level. It is based on a conceptual study aiming to understand the relationship as well as two statistical … the results of intellectual capital measures and productivity measures are examined. The conceptual study suggests that … the company-level relationship between IC and productivity is a complex and case-specific phenomenon. The biggest problems …
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