The “Asian miracle” ended in the autumn of 1997 when many East Asian economies fell victim to the Asian crisis. In this study, we analyse the reasons for the crisis and its effects on the world economy. We study why market players were unable to predict the crisis and identify the main...

“Public Funding and Private Returns to Education - PURE” is a two-year EU-TSER financed research project that started on November 1, 1998. It involves as many as 15 European countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain,...

Global health care issues are driving the public sector into a balancing act between conflicting and complementary forces of inevitable change: an ageing population, the explosion of new therapeutic technologies, a critical shortage of clinical professionals, the desire to improve clinical...

Lack of capital has for long, if not always, been perceived as one of the most important impediments to economic activity in Finland the Achilles heel of the Finnish economy. This volume takes a long-term perspective on this perception. It considers how the Finnish financial system and the...

Rita Asplundin toimittamassa Education and Earnings -tutkimuksessa esitellään uutta eurooppalaista tutkimusta koulutuksen yksilöille tuottamasta taloudellisesta hyödystä. Tutkimuksessa käsitellään mm. koulutuksen ja työttömyyden välistä suhdetta, yritysten halua investoida...

Large industrial complexes were the engines of the Soviet economy, which collapsed in 1991. Advancing economic growth in Russia is a question of how well these previous agglomerations will be transformed into market-driven industry clusters, and what kind of new business activities free...

This study examines job search behaviour by the help of two separate survey data samples. The stock sample represents those job seekers who were either unemployed or in active labour market programmes. The flow sample represents those job seekers, who received a job from open labour market or...

Globalisaation on tällä hetkellä hyvin ajankohtainen keskustelunaihe sekä teollisuusmaissa että kehitysmaissa. Teollisuusmaiden osalta keskustelu on suhteellisen pragmaattista, mutta kehitysmaiden tapauksessa siihen liittyy enemmän poliittisia ja sosiaalisia näkemyseroja. Markku...

This book explores the impact of public R&D funding on the economic performance of Finnish firms, especially in terms of productivity growth and job creation. Special attention is thereby paid to the potential influence exerted by two crucial characteristics of firms – their size and their...