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Marginal Intra Industry Trade Expansion and Productivity Growth

Kaitila, Ville - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

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 …

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The Perils of Altering Incentive Plans: A case study

Kauhanen, Antti - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

This paper studies a retail chain that introduced a sales incentive plan that rewarded for exceeding a sales target and subsequently cut the incentive intensity in addition to increasing the target. Utilizing monthly panel data for 54 months for all 53 units of the chain the paper shows that the...

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Kangasniemi, Mari; Kauhanen, Antti - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

We study the impact of performance-related pay (PRP) on gender wage differences using Finnish linked employer-employee panel data. Controlling for unobserved person and firm effects, we find that bonuses increase womens earnings slightly less than mens, but the economic significance of the...

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Firm Growth and Profitability:The Role of Mobile IT and Organizational Practices

Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2010

This study uses a unique survey data from 398 Finnish manufacturing firms to explore how the order of magnitude of mobility and connectivity of a firms ICT stock in conjunction with various organizational innovation and HRM practices affect the firms performance. The data suggest that mobile...

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Performance Pay and Enterprise Productivity: The Details Matter

Kato, Takao; Kauhanen, Antti - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

increase firm performance in general and enterprise productivity in particular by introducing PRP and if so, how much. However … novel and rigorous evidence on the productivity effect of varying attributes of PRP and shows that the details of PRP indeed … establish that the omitted variable bias is serious, makes the cross-sectional estimates on the productivity effect of the …

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Performance Measurement and Incentive Plans

Kauhanen, Antti; Napari, Sami - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2010

This paper explores performance measurement in incentive plans. Based on theory, we argue that differences in the nature of jobs between blue- and white-collar employees lead to differences in incentive systems. We find that performance measurement for white-collar workers is broader in terms of...

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Toimihenkilöiden työ- ja palkkaurat Suomen teollisuudessa

Jokinen, Juha-Pekka - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan toimihenkilöiden välisiä eroja työ- ja palkkaurissa sekä niiden taustalla vaikuttavia tekijöitä. Lisäksi tutkimuksessa kiinnitetään huomiota siihen, missä uravaiheessa merkittävimmät erot syntyvät ja mikä merkitys erilaisilla siirtymillä on...

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CEO Compensation, Firm Size and Firm Performance: Evidence from Finnish Panel Data

Mäkinen, Mikko - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

This paper examines how CEO pay is related to firm size and to firm performance in Finland by using new individual-level compensation data in 1996-2002. We find robust evidence that CEO average compensation has increased substantially between 1996 and 2002. For example, the ratio between CEO and...

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The Determinants of Stock Option Compensation: Evidence from Finland

Jones, Derek C.; Kalmi, Panu; Mäkinen, Mikko - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2004

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How foreign companies in Finland differ from Finnish-owned enterprises? (In Finnish with English abstract)

Kaitila, Ville - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012

number of exogenous factors. According to the results, foreign-owned firms have higher productivity than domestic non …-multinational firms. There is no difference in the average growth rate of productivity if the difference in levels is not controlled …. Accordingly, a shift to foreign ownership has, on average, not affected the growth rate of productivity. The results concerning …

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