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productivity rise the wage hikes should be linked. In this paper we examine the economy-wide productivity rise vs the industry …-level rise in productivity as a basis for a wage norm. We evaluate the consequences of these alternatives from the point of view … which takes the aggregate productivity rise as its norm, has given room for the profitable industries to grow, but, on the …
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The study shows that the exceptional drop in volume of Finland's GDP in 2009 - as much as 8 per cent -was to a large extent due to huge decline in exports and production of one industry, ICT. The contribution of ICT (or electronics and electro-technical industry) to GDP decline was close to two...
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We assess Finland’s competitiveness in the light of various, mainly short-term indicators. It turns out that the weak export market performance over the last few years is linked to the deterioration of profitability of production in Finland. A better export and employment performance requires...
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There is a lack of comprehensive information on the quality of management in Finland as compared to other countries. Funded by the Strategic Research Council, the Skills, Education and the Future of Work research project has started filling this gap. As part of the project, an extensive survey...
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on productivity growth, we estimate that Finland could achieve an annual growth rate of about 2 per cent in the coming 5 …
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technological change and productivity growth takes place in an economy. Quite normally, some 30-50% of an industry's productivity … growth is due to this particular mechanism. Disruptions to this mechanism would have considerable effects on productivity …
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We compare the levels and development of labour productivity in different countries, especially in the private sectors … alternative productivity indicators. The calculations give us a better understanding of the uncertainties in productivity … relative to other countries. On the other hand, Finland has thus by now lost most of its earlier source of productivity growth …
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productivity rise the wage hikes should be linked. In this paper we examine the economy-wide productivity rise vs the industry …-level rise in productivity as a basis for a wage norm. We evaluate the consequences of these alternatives from the point of view … which takes the aggregate productivity rise as its norm, has given room for the profitable industries to grow, but, on the …
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