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This paper discusses the Finnish experiences of Active Labour Market Policy (ALMP) across the economic cycle, especially in economic downturn. Cuts in unemployment spell duration have been the main factors to contribute in decreasing the unemployment in the recent years. Subsidised employment...
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This paper investigates occupational segregation by gender in the Finnish private sector during the period 1995 … genders have decreased during the investigation period occupational segregation by gender is still high in the Finnish labour … industry. Segregation is much higher in the male-dominated industries than in the female-dominated or in the gender …
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"The stability and quality of work careers are major social and economic issues, as the funding of the Nordic welfare state is based on the employment of working-age people and the tax revenue collected from work, production and consumption. This edited volume examines how work careers have...
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the international comparisons, the price formation of the food chain, degree of concentration, competition, and the …, competition works in Finland just as well in agriculture, the foodstuffs industry and the wholesale and retail trade as it does in … from the standpoint of competition and consumer choice; the position of small producers can best be improved by fostering …
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The use of traditional industry-level profitability indicators for assessing the state of competition is problematic … for two reasons. First, short-term variation reflects business cycles more than it does the impact of competition policy …. Second, rough industry-level indicators hide different mechanisms that are dependent on competition but may affect …
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The report's main objective is to assess the role that competition has played in the weak development of R …&D investments in the Finnish corporate sector in the 2010s. The data suggest that the degree of competition relates to differences … concentrated, and the degree of competition in their markets weakened. In competitive industries, R&D intensity did not decrease …
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industry is the loss of the Symbian mobile phone operating system in global competition. Together with that, profitability … collapsed, and no new R&D investment opportunities of a similar size were found. However, companies should not avoid competition … 2010s also highlight the importance of international competition and international trade agreements. The decline in the …
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Europe the driving force in the electricity market reform is the electricity directive which introduces competition to …
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