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five of its sub-industries, as well as in construction and wholesale the Finnish level of labour productivity was higher … than in the aforementioned countries. Finnish labour productivity was on par with EU15 by 2004. In four manufacturing sub … exhibiting rapid productivity increase was in European comparison a brisk growth of multi-factor productivity and a larger …
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This paper investigates the connection between firm entry and exit and labour productivity growth. The study has its … importance of productivity enhancing restructuring has been increasingly acknowledged and all these theories depict the … productivity enhancing effects that external restructuring - in particular firm entry and exit may have. Despite the vast …
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The study investigates empirically how ownership affects firms domestic employment and its fluctuations. We look at six different ownership categories : first generation family businesses, second generation (or older) family businesses, state-owned companies, foreign-owned companies, publicly...
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This paper studies whether family businesses (FBs) differ from non-family businesses (non-FBs) in various dimensions of globalization with a representative sample of businesses in Finnish manufacturing and private services. FBs and non-FBs are not so different when it comes to export and...
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women and to the size of the (unadjusted) gender wage gap at the different levels of the wage distribution. The gender wage …
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issues : 1) gender differences in jobs and hierarchical positions in the beginning of the career, 2) gender differences in … career development, 3) gender differences in starting wages and wage premiums to changes in hierarchical position. The study … declined in the past 25 years. The results also show that there are gender differences in career development : men get promoted …
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This paper investigates occupational segregation by gender in the Finnish private sector during the period 1995 … genders have decreased during the investigation period occupational segregation by gender is still high in the Finnish labour … gender-balanced industries. The paper also utilizes the panel structure of the data to investigate the question of how …
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members also has a similar impact. The effect of the chairmans gender is statistically insignificant. These findings are …
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The importance of data and different sources of knowledge in the development of new services and products, and further in the creation of new markets, has dramatically increased during the past few decades. This empirical study uses data from 531 Finnish firms to explore the determinants of...
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This study analyzes the use of design and the position of the design function in Finnish manufacturing firms. We also study the impact of design on companies business performance. The paper is based on a survey directed to the member companies of the Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) in...
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