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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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, whereas in-house offshoring of R&D has a negative effect. Specific for the manufacturing sector is that offshore outsourcing … level. The analysis is based on a Finnish weighted sample of 652 firms and screens the effect of offshoring different kinds … of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are taken into account : offshore outsourcing and in-house offshoring …
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This report reviews some of the most recent literature examining the home country employment effects of internationalisation. A brief overview of the history of the internationalisation of Finnish firms is also presented. The general conclusion from the literature is that the absolute employment...
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We analyse the degree of EU countries’ specialisation in their exports and manufacturing value added using the … thereafter. However, exports have become more specialised at the product level (HS6) during the euro years. Manufacturing value … special cases. Export structures became more similar before 2008. However, manufacturing value added similarity decreased. GDP …
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This paper addresses the question of the software companies timing of adoption of the open source software (OSS) business models comprising the supply of OSS products and/or services. The game-theoretic technology adoption models do not explain well the observed diffusion patterns of the OSS...
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economies in the European Union. Specifically, using micro data for manufacturing and services over the period 2001-2009, we … acquisition. Our results indicate that foreign investors tend to acquire larger firms in both manufacturing and services. Other … characteristics of acquired firms differ across countries and between manufacturing and services. Taken together, our estimates …
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The euro area economic  crisis is largely a result of the competitiveness disparity between Germany and the rest of the euro area. The wage moderation in Germany has considerably improved  its competitiveness in relation to the rest of the euro area. Wage policy has been deflationary in...
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increasing productivity in 12 manufacturing industries of four regions, and that increased international trade is a factor …
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