This study analyzes trends in specialization of the Finnish industry since the 1980s. Low technology industries, such … their share of output has decreased significantly and Finland has specialized more and more in high technology industries …

-term cost structure of health care. The non-monetary utility is compared to cost-efficiency impacts of a new technology. A …

providing evidence on the age-productivity and age-earnings profiles for a sample of plants in three manufacturing industries … managerial changes does make a difference for plant productivity, less so for wages. In electronics, the Finnish industry … undergoing a major technological and managerial shock in the 1990s, the response of productivity to age-related variables is …

analyse the effects of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after …

to address the product-service transition is the socio-economic view of service productivity. On that basis, the paper …

cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …

This thesis studies the impacts of technology development and R&D subsidies. The first essay examines whether public …-R&D employment. The third essay focuses on the productivity effects of R&D. The results of empirical analyses are two-fold. In the … short run (in 1-2 years), no statistically significant productivity impact of R&D is found. However, R&D does have an …

second essay presents empirical evidence on the productivity impacts of stock option schemes. It shows that when endogeneity … firm productivity. The finding is consistent with the hypotheses that predict negligible effects of option plans on firm … performance. The third essay studies whether, instead of productivity, option schemes affect firm technical inefficiency. The …

business subsidies on firm productivity performance and on the relationship between firms’ lagged labor productivity and market … firms’ productivity performance. It seems that particularly employment and investment subsidies tend to be allocated to the … relatively less efficient companies. We further observe that a decline in the firm’s lagged labor productivity levels are clearly …