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A portrait of trading firms in the services sectors Comparable evidence from four EU countries

Haller, Stefanie A.; Damijan, Joe; Kaitila, Ville; … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012

We establish a set of stylised facts for trade and trading firms in five market services sectors using comparable firm …-level and services data from four EU countries. Our analysis shows that exports account for much lower shares of overall sales … in the services sectors than in manufacturing. In line with this there are also fewer firms engaged in trade in the …

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Outsourcing in Finnish Manufacturing - Does Industry Matter? (in Finnish with English abstract and summary)

Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

This study analyses the extent of outsourcing in Finnish manufacturing. We find that in the early 2000s, 60% of companies in the Metal, Engineering and Electronics industries (the Technology industry) on average have outsourced some of their functions. In other manufacturing industries, the...

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Outsourcing of Manufactoring R&D Functions - Motives and Results (in Finnish with English abstract and summary)

Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

This study analyses the motives and results of outsourcing. According to the results, companies have pursued outsourcing for a variety of reasons. Cost savings are the major driving force behind the outsourcing of production function. Increased flexibility, focusing and additional capacity are...

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Outsourcing and Offshoring - Overview from Finland in the Early 21st Century (in Finnish with English abstract and summary)

Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

This study analyses the extent and motives of outsourcing and offshoring. We find that in early 2000, 10, 000 23, 000 jobs were transferred overseas from Finland. Annually this corresponds to approximately 1.0 2.5% of normal job losses and creations in the Finnish labour market. The majority of...

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Intangibles and the gender wage gap: An analysis of gender wage gaps across occupations in the Finnish private sector

Asplund, Rita; Napari, Sami - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

separately for manufacturing and services using Finnish private-sector data. We apply a decomposition method based on …

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Implications of EU Governance Reforms: Rationale and Practical Application

Alcidi, Cinzia; Gros, Daniel - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2014

We consider the real life implementation of some key elements of the new economic governance framework for the euro area. The main findings are the following. The Country Specific Recommendations issued in the context of the European Semester seem to be too little ‘specific’ to constrain...

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Domestic R&D Employment Effects of Offshoring R&D Tasks: Some Empirical Evidence from Finland

Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Deschryvere, Matthias - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

This study empirically explores whether R&D offshoring affects the domestic R&D employment at the firm level. Overall, the Finnish survey data suggest that the impact of R&D internationalization on domestic R&D employment depends on the mode of internationalization (in-house offshoring vs....

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International Investment and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Small Open Economies

Kaitila, Ville; McQuinn, John; Siedschlag, Iulia; … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

economies in the European Union. Specifically, using micro data for manufacturing and services over the period 2001-2009, we … analyse the effects of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after … acquisition. Our results indicate that foreign investors tend to acquire larger firms in both manufacturing and services. Other …

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The Nature of the Finnish Competitiveness Problem

Maliranta, Mika; Vihriälä, Vesa - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

We assess Finland’s competitiveness in the light of various, mainly short-term indicators. It turns out that the weak export market performance over the last few years is linked to the deterioration of profitability of production in Finland. A better export and employment performance requires...

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Servitization as a Productive Strategy of a Firm - Evidence from the Forest-Based Industries

Viitamo, Esa - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

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 …

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