women and to the size of the (unadjusted) gender wage gap at the different levels of the wage distribution. The gender wage …

issues : 1) gender differences in jobs and hierarchical positions in the beginning of the career, 2) gender differences in … career development, 3) gender differences in starting wages and wage premiums to changes in hierarchical position. The study … declined in the past 25 years. The results also show that there are gender differences in career development : men get promoted …

This paper investigates occupational segregation by gender in the Finnish private sector during the period 1995 … genders have decreased during the investigation period occupational segregation by gender is still high in the Finnish labour … gender-balanced industries. The paper also utilizes the panel structure of the data to investigate the question of how …

members also has a similar impact. The effect of the chairmans gender is statistically insignificant. These findings are …

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 …