five of its sub-industries, as well as in construction and wholesale the Finnish level of labour productivity was higher … than in the aforementioned countries. Finnish labour productivity was on par with EU15 by 2004. In four manufacturing sub … exhibiting rapid productivity increase was in European comparison a brisk growth of multi-factor productivity and a larger …

This paper investigates the connection between firm entry and exit and labour productivity growth. The study has its … importance of productivity enhancing restructuring has been increasingly acknowledged and all these theories depict the … productivity enhancing effects that external restructuring - in particular firm entry and exit may have. Despite the vast …

productivity at company-level. It is based on a conceptual study aiming to understand the relationship as well as two statistical … the results of intellectual capital measures and productivity measures are examined. The conceptual study suggests that … the company-level relationship between IC and productivity is a complex and case-specific phenomenon. The biggest problems …

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 …