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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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strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. …
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-existent compensating wage differentials. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved productivity differences that were …
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This paper links data on establishments and individuals to analyze the role of establishments in the increase in inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of log earnings among individuals into the part due to changes...
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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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for earnings mobility and growth; for the majority, however, self-employment remains constrained to low-productivity … labor away from these low-productivity activities into higher value added sectors. …
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