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Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of … changes. Our results support the view that organisational change complements ICT investments in a productivity …-enhancing manner. In particular, the ICT-driven productivity gains are associated with the destruction of routine and non …
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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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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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The EU 2020 process has the key headline target of raising the average employment rate in the EU to 75 from the present 69 per cent. In this paper, we first derive a new result for optimal policymaking under uncertainty. It consists of two components : one of a unilateral policy reaction under...
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Tässä raportissa käsitellään aluksi kahta Suomen taloutta ja työmarkkinoita kohtaavaa tekijää, jotka ovat peräisin kansainvälisestä taloudesta : globalisaatiokehitystä ja kansainvälistä talouskriisiä. Tutkimme niiden vaikutusta Suomen talouteen käyttäen työmarkkinoiden...
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Suomen talous on joutunut jyrkkään taantumaan, joka uhkaa muodostua syväksi lamaksi. Koska tilanteen taustalla ovat kysynnän hiipuminen kansainvälisessä taloudessa ja kotimaassa ja koska epävarmuuden lisääntyessä likviditeettirajoitusten merkitys kasvaa, voidaan taantumaa...
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Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan toimihenkilöiden välisiä eroja työ- ja palkkaurissa sekä niiden taustalla vaikuttavia tekijöitä. Lisäksi tutkimuksessa kiinnitetään huomiota siihen, missä uravaiheessa merkittävimmät erot syntyvät ja mikä merkitys erilaisilla siirtymillä on...
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This dissertation is an empirical study of the gender wage gap in Finland. Much of the dissertation focuses explicitly on the early career as it is found that the first years after labour market entry are of great importance with respect to the overall gender wage gap. The dissertation consists...
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We study the effects of compulsory military service in Finland on the conscripts future labour market behaviour. This is measured in three ways : first, the time it takes to complete civil education and the level of education acquired; second, how the conscripts will find employment; and third,...
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characteristics and also of the employing establishment on the dispersion of male and female wages. The data comes from the … show that both the level and trend in the dispersion of male and female wages are highly similar in the male …
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