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Domestic R&D employment effects of offshoring R&D tasks: Some empirical evidence from Finland
Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Deschryvere, Matthias - 2008
This study empirically explores whether R&D offshoring affects the domestic R&D employment at the firm level. Overall … of internationalization (in-house offshoring vs. offshore outsourcing vs. in-house expansion of R&D abroad). Moreover … effects. In the manufacturing sector, especially in-house offshoring of R&D has a significant negative impact on the plan to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273043
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Mapping of the PhDs in the private sector: A literature review
Stén, Susanna - 2008
This review maps out the labour market situation of PhDs employed in the private sector. To begin with, the theoretical motives for employing PhDs and the supporting empirical evidence are examined. The potential benefits of companies from employing PhDs can be divided into productivity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273056
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Gender differences in early-career wage growth
Napari, Sami - 2007
In Finnish manufacturing, the gender wage gap more than doubles during the first ten years in the labor market. This paper studies the factors contributing to the gender gap in early-career wage growth. The analysis shows that the size of the gender gap in wage growth varies with mobility status...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285014
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The productivity effects of stock option schemes: Evidence from Finnish panel data
Jones, Derek C.; Kalmi, Panu; Mäkinen, Mikko - 2006
While theorists differ sharply on the expected economic impact of stock options, typically empirical work has found a positive association between option schemes and firm productivity. However, existing data are limited and may not enable reliable investigation of the productivity effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285127
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Do stock option schemes affect firm technical inefficiency? Evidence from Finland
Mäkinen, Mikko - 2007
In this paper we study whether stock option schemes affect firm technical inefficiency. We estimate Cobb-Douglas stochastic production frontier models using a novel panel data set on the publicly listed Finnish firms in the manufacturing and ICT sectors over the period from 1992 to 2002. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285148
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Factor income shares and micro-level restructuring: An analysis of Finnish manufacturing
Maliranta, Mika - 2002
This paper examines the relationship between productivity-enhancing restructuring at the micro level and changes in aggregate factor income shares in Finnish manufacturing. As a framework we make use of a simple model where long-run aggregate productivity growth is determined by successive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285253
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Domestic employment effects of offshoring: Empirical evidence from Finland
Deschryvere, Matthias; Kotiranta, Annu - 2008
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 taken into account: offshore outsourcing and in-house offshoring. The … main conclusion is that offshoring can significantly affect the total domestic employment but that the significance and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273023
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Outsourcing, occupational restructuring, and employee well-being: Is there a silver lining?
Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - 2012
.e., managers, professionals and experts), especially when offshoring involves closer connections to other developed countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326870
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Yritsten kansainvälistymisen vaikutukset kotimaan talouteen ja työllisyyteen: Katsaus kirjallisuuteen
Kotiranta, Annu; Lundan, Sarianna M.; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - 2008
This report reviews some of the most recent literature examining the home country employment effects of internationalisation. A brief overview of the history of the internationalisation of Finnish firms is also presented. The general conclusion from the literature is that the absolute employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275842
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The role of business subsidies in job-creation start-ups, gazelles and imcumbents
Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - 2011
Our data concerning the whole Finnish company population from the years 2003-2008 suggest that the impacts of business subsidies on employment growth differ more between high-growth start-ups and other firms than between start-ups and over five years old incumbents. All subsidies seem to relate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326894