Showing 1 - 9 of 9
This paper explores the effects of outsourcing on employee well-being through the use of the Finnish linked employer-employee data. The direct negative effect of outsourcing is attributable to greater job destruction and worker outflow. In terms of perceived well-being, the winners in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987191
There is a deep structural transformation going on In the Finnish electrical, electronics and IT services sector. The main reason is a major turning point in ICT due to diminishing production and employment in mobile telecom industry where large amount of high-skill jobs will disappear in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987232
This study empirically explores whether the propensity to offshore affects the total domestic employment at the firm level. The analysis is based on a Finnish weighted sample of 652 firms and screens the effect of offshoring different kinds of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818335
The paper summarizes the findings of a follow-up study on the globalization of the largest Finnish multinational … rest of their location changes. Thus, the current globalization process includes two parallel processes. The Finnish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818368
globalization with a representative sample of businesses in Finnish manufacturing and private services. FBs and non-FBs are not so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818395
The paper summarizes the results of a follow-up study on the effects of globalization in an old industrial town in … recent years the effects of globalization have changed towards more negative direction. This is not because of foreign … closed. In addition, due to globalization pressure firms in Finland and Varkaus try to develop new high-tech products. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818438
The Finnish experience in the 1990s represents one of the few examples of how knowledge can become the driving force in economic growth and transformation. The countrys industrial structure that was previously raw material-, energy-, and capital-intensive changed in less than a decade to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700440
According to EVAŽs annual attitude and value survey, two out of three Finns believe that globalization means loosing … indicates that the employment effects of globalization are rather modest, who is afraid of globalization and why? In this … analysis it is found that highly educated, service sector, and male employees are the least afraid of globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566063
We examine the sources and micro-level mechanisms of the changes in the labor share of value added. We link the micro-level dynamics of the labor share change with that of productivity and wage growth. Using a useful variant of the decomposition method we make a distinction between the change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566071