The aim of this paper is to examine rent sharing under a heterogeneous workforce using linked employer-employee Finnish data in 1987-1998 located in Statistics Finland. It is shown that rent sharing moderates firm-level wages and that the highly educated workers are the main targets. In...

We analyze how features of performance-related pay (PRP) schemes affect their perceived motivational effects using a Finnish survey from 1999. The results show that the following features are important for a successful PRP scheme: (i) the employees have to feel they are able to affect the...

The aim of this paper is to examine profit sharing using Finnish linked employer-employee data in 1996-2000. The use of profit sharing is predicted by the share of the highly educated, R&D and capital intensity, business risk, firm size and the desire to have some stability in the skilled...

This study contains an empirical analysis of gross job and worker flows in the context of the great depression of the early 1990s. The novelty of the empirical implemention is to characterize gross job and worker flows in terms of education and experience of employees. This is an important...

This study considers employment and productivity growth generated by the public funding of R&D using linked employer-employee data in Finland. Public subsidies, instrumented by available public R&D funding in the industry/region, have a positive effect on productivity growth in small and...

This exploratory study examines outsourcing and offshoring of software development by analysing Indian companies in Finland. Based on qualitative data our results support the view that offshore outsourcing decisions are usually cost-driven. Another important motive has been the availability of...

This paper uses a job duration model based on linked employeremployee data over the period 1989-1998 with an emphasis on the job mobility of the highly educated. It is shown that the job mobility of all prime age workers is sensitive to pecuniary incentives. However, wages as a whole include...

This paper explains early retirement using Finnish time-use data, gathered by Statistics Finland during the years 1987 and 2000. The biggest gain drawn from time-use data is the capability to give information of individuals’ non-monetary activities. Finnish early retirement years are, in many...