be used to predict the present and the near future unemployment rate in Finland. Predicting the present and the near … information contained in Google search queries, the report compares a simple predictive model of unemployment to a model that … future unemployment 3 months ahead. Google search queries also tend to improve the prediction accuracy around turning points …

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. …

-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 … of almost 5 years is needed to capture the productivity impact of R&D. The fourth essay studies how patent quality …

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 …