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labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …
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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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This paper delves into the recent events that led to the formation of the housing bubble in Spain and the resulting structural change that is arguably needed to put the economy back into the right track. For this purpose we calibrate a model with different equilibria descriptive of the labor...
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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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It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...
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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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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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