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The Provision and Effects of Company Training. A brief review of the literature

Asplund, Rita - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2004

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The Nature of the Finnish Competitiveness Problem

Maliranta, Mika; Vihriälä, Vesa - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

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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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

This study analyses the dynamics of productivity growth at the micro level in Finnish manufacturing industries. It is shown that productivity-enhancing restructuring (so-called “creative destruction”) has played a crucial role especially since the mid-1980s. Empirical evidence is provided...

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Public R&D Subsidies and Employment Growth - Microeconomic Evidence from Finnish Firms

Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

This study empirically explores whether the public financial support for entrepreneurial R&D affects employment growth at the firm level. The data from the Finnish companies suggests that the firms that have received public R&D funding have not generally witnessed any greater employment growth...

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The role of business subsidies in job-creation start-ups, gazelles and imcumbents

Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

Our data concerning the whole Finnish company population from the years 2003-2008 suggest that the impacts of business subsidies on employment growth differ more between high-growth start-ups and other firms than between start-ups and over five years old incumbents. All subsidies seem to relate...

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Do Business Subsidies Facilitate Employment Growth?

Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

We use data from 15508 Finnish companies with 10 or more employees for the years 2003-2008 to explore the relationship between employment growth and three endogenously determined business subsidy types (i.e. employment subsidy, R&D subsidy and other business subsidies). We find a positive...

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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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The Labour Market Consequences of Self-employment Spells: European Evidence

Hyytinen, Ari; Rouvinen, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

We examine how those re-entering paid-employment after a brief self-employment spell fare upon return using data from the European Community Household Panel. Unconditionally, those re-entering paid-employment appear to have considerably lower wages than those staying in the wage sector. This...

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The Effects of General and Firm-Spesific Training on Wages and Performance: Evidence from Banking

Jones, Derek; Kalmi, Panu; Kauhanen, Antti - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

By using new panel data for Finnish banks we study the impact of training on wages and performance. To the best of our … knowledge, ours is the first paper to compare explicitly the effects of general and firmspecific workplace training on outcomes … for both employees and firms. Unlike much existing literature, we find stronger evidence that training improves worker …

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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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