: 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 …

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 …

analyse the effects of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after …

Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of … changes. Our results support the view that organisational change complements ICT investments in a productivity …-enhancing manner. In particular, the ICT-driven productivity gains are associated with the destruction of routine and non …

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 … captured a dominant share of the productivity advantage of global firms. …

have declined because of difficulties in telecommunication sector. Productivity analysis shows that high country-level R …&D expenditures as in Finland and the United States - have positive correlation with labour productivity in manufacturing. Moreover …, labour productivity in manufacturing in OECD countries relates positively with FDI and R&D expenditure growth. Also the level …

This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manufacturing is competitive because …

productivity growth across 23 EU countries and 94 manufacturing sectors in 1995-2005. The highest MIIT index values are found in … been associated with slower productivity growth. The results indicate that a trade-flow expansion characterised by intra …-industry trade (high MIIT) is associated with faster productivity growth also after we control for the size in trade flow changes …