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This paper studies whether family businesses (FBs) differ from non-family businesses (non-FBs) in various dimensions of globalization with a representative sample of businesses in Finnish manufacturing and private services. FBs and non-FBs are not so different when it comes to export and...
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The study investigates empirically how ownership affects firms domestic employment and its fluctuations. We look at six different ownership categories : first generation family businesses, second generation (or older) family businesses, state-owned companies, foreign-owned companies, publicly...
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Elderly people could markedly increase they standard of living by releasing their housing equity. Purchase of a single-payment life annuity would increase the benefits of this release. The tax treatment of these annuities is, however, very strict in Finland, because both yield and capital are...
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Future improvements in mortality are difficult to forecast. In this paper, we incorporate uncertainty about future mortality, or aggregate mortality risk, into an otherwise standard life cycle model with an intertemporal consumption-savings decision. The aggregate mortality process is calibrated...
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We analyze how changes in the mandatory pension system and the increasing life expectancy will affect the need for private retirement savings in Finland. The time horizon we consider is that of current young generations. We discuss private retirement savings from the point of view households,...
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Postal service volumes have diminished and the profitability of postal and courier activities has weakened in Finland … in recent years. The study evaluates the development of the service volumes, profitability and employment of postal and … distribution volumes. The profitability of postal services is not expected to improve until 2020 because the increasing unit costs …
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export market performance over the last few years is linked to the deterioration of profitability of production in Finland. A … profitability. Wage moderation would obviously serve this purpose. On the other hand, the determinants of Finland’s long …
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profitability of universal service provider was clearly lower than that of competitors during the sample time period. The annual …
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occupational structures when explaining productivity and profitability gaps between global and local firms. The findings indicate … reflected in their productivity, it is not as clearly reflected in their profitability.The findings imply that employees have …
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This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … has been the ICT revolution. Second, the profitability of industries is calculated for 2007. Profitability is divided into … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manufacturing is competitive because …
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