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 …

Private services account for over a half of GDP in developed industrialised countries. We analyse how productivity in … 1980-2003. For Finland, also the development in total factor productivity is analysed. The sectors included in the study … as a whole, labour productivity in Finland is at the same level as in the reference countries on average, but …

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 …

/plants in the Finnish business sector. Using a decomposition method applied in labour economics and productivity analysis, we …

decomposition methods frequently used for measuring micro-level sources of industry productivity growth. By using comprehensive … linked employer-employee data from the Finnish business sector, we study the productivity and wage effects, and hence the …