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Industry restructuring in the ICT sector – What does labor mobility tell us about skill relatedness and knowledge spillovers?

Nikulainen, Tuomo; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

Industries go through different phases of evolution where old skills become obsolete and new skills arecrucial for the industrial renewal process. Industry evolution is usually addressed from the perspectives of production and exports, leaving one factor largely unexplored: human capital....

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Is Inter-firm Labor Mobility a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from a Linked Employer-Employee Panel

Maliranta, Mika; Mohnen, Pierre; Rouvinen, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

An employer-employee panel is used to study whether the movement of workers across firms is a channel of unintended diffusion of R&D-generated knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, hiring workers from others R&D labs to ones own does not seem to be a significant spillover channel. Hiring workers...

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Training and Hiring Strategies to Improve Firm Performance

Maliranta, Mika; Asplund, Rita - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

: 1) providing formal training and 2) strategic recruitment and separation policy. The use of register-based longitudinal … employer-employee data supplemented with a survey on vocational training provides an opportunity to shed fresh light on the … training stimulates subsequent growth of performance but only when combined with the implementation of new process or product …

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Micro Level Dynamics of Productivity Growth. An Empirical Analysis of the Great Leap in Finnish Manufacturing Productivity in 1975-2000

Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2003

This study analyses the dynamics of productivity growth at the micro level in Finnish manufacturing industries. It is shown that productivity-enhancing restructuring (so-called “creative destruction”) has played a crucial role especially since the mid-1980s. Empirical evidence is provided...

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Aging, Labor Turnover and Firm Performance

Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

We study whether older workers are costly to firms. Our estimation equations are derived from a variant of the decomposition methods frequently used for measuring micro-level sources of industry productivity growth. By using comprehensive linked employer-employee data from the Finnish business...

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Mobility of ideas for innovation: The role of inventor-specific knowledge flows

Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2015

Our data from 351 innovating firms for the years 2001–2012 generally suggest that patentable ideas are strongly linked to the mobility of individual inventors, or that the knowledge flows transmitted are sticky inventor-specific. In other words, the larger the knowledge pool of an inventor...

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The Incidence and Determinants of Employee Involvement - Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Sector

Jones, Derek C.; Kalmi, Panu; Kato, Takao; Mäkinen, Mikko - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

In this paper, we present preliminary empirical findings on the incidence of employee involvement practices in the Finnish manufacturing sector. The novel survey on EI practices is based on a representative random sample from the population of the Finnish manufacturing firms who had 50 or more...

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Nokia’s Labor Inflows and Outflows in Finland: Observations from 1989 to 2010

Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

Nokia’s ascent, dominance, and descent have resulted in significant labor inflows and outflows in Finland. In this paper, we document the aspects of these flows using official register-based data covering virtually all individuals and organizations in Finland. Our setup may be compared to a...

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The Home Country Employment Effects of Internationalisation - A Literature Review

Kotiranta, Annu; Lundan, Sarianna; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

This report reviews some of the most recent literature examining the home country employment effects of internationalisation. A brief overview of the history of the internationalisation of Finnish firms is also presented. The general conclusion from the literature is that the absolute employment...

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Työpaikka- ja työntekijävirrat ja tehtävärakenteiden dynamiikka Suomen yrityssektorilla

Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

Job flows are typically defined on the basis of the employment changes at the plant level. When calculated in this way, the job creation rate was 22.4% and destruction rate 23.8% in the Finnish business sector in the four-year period 2000-2004. However, when the different occupations (using...

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