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

better export and employment performance requires a decline of relative unit labour costs and an improvement of business …

short-run negative impulse on employment from a positive productivity shock, while this becomes smaller and statistically …-run trade-off between productivity and employment, over the medium run acceleration of productivity has a clear positive effect …The paper considers time series evidence on the relationships, and possible trade-offs, between productivity and …

: Employment; Corporate taxes under tax competition; Productivity growth and convergence; Macroeconomic policies under a single …

The paper considers time series evidence on the relationships, and possible trade-offs, between productivity and … employment, and on the impact of taxes in this connection. First, a theoretical model is built for an open economy leading to the … is that there is in the EU a fairly uniform and significant short-run negative impulse on employment from a positive …

a manufacturing firm is augmented with intangible services. In this paper, servitization is addressed broadly as a … 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 … high among firms with a high employment share of managers and professionals. We also find that the dispersion in the return … to firms’ total capital is particularly high among young firms with a high employment share of managers and professionals …

-R&D employment. The third essay focuses on the productivity effects of R&D. The results of empirical analyses are two-fold. In the …-level and domestic R&D employment. However, public funding does not have a statistically significant effect on non … short run (in 1-2 years), no statistically significant productivity impact of R&D is found. However, R&D does have an …

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 …