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Kauhanen, Antti - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2014

Information and communications technology, global value chains, and population ageing are changing the structures of the labour market. These three factors affect the tasks carried out in Finland in the future and the division of labour between humans and computers. The changes are taking place...

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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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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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Knowledge and Innovation Subsidies as Engines for Growth. The Competitiveness of Finnish Regions

Piekkola, Hannu - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

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Employment Dynamics and Openness to Trade in Finnish Manufacturing

Nurmi, Satu - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2004

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Challenges of Nordic labour markets: A polarization of working life?

Asplund, Rita; Barth, Erling; Lundborg, Per; Misje … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

Labour-market polarization is characterized by increased employment in occupations at the top but also at the bottom of the skills and wage distributions, followed by a relative decline in middling occupations. This paper documents a polarization trend also in the Nordic labour markets and...

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International Investment and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Small Open Economies

Kaitila, Ville; McQuinn, John; Siedschlag, Iulia; … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

Abstract: This paper examines the causal link between foreign investment and firm performance in six small open economies in the European Union. Specifically, using micro data for manufacturing and services over the period 2001-2009, we analyse the effects of foreign mergers and acquisitions on...

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Business and Intellectual Capital Development in Financial Riptide - Case Studies of Finnish Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Companies Dispersing into Global Value Chains

Kulvik, Martti; Tähtinen, Marja; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

This study focused on two primary areas: 1. To determine what can be learned from biotech and drug development companies that suffered from financial problems and ultimately failed at the beginning of the 21st century. 2. To determine how intellectual capital developed in accordance with such...

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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

educated and less experienced workers through micro level restructuring. Productivity-enhancing restructuring also has …

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Essays on the Gender Wage Gap in Finland

Napari, Sami - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

-collar workers are found. These differences in education account for about 38 per cent of the gender wage gap among young white …-collar workers with a bachelor-level degree after controlling for age, year, gender, region, industry and firm size. The … corresponding number for young white-collar workers with a master-level degree is roughly 31 per cent. There are no considerable …

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