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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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employment, especially among young and small companies. Impacts on the productivity are, however, uncertain. Cooperation of … help firms to grow larger but do not improve their productivity. …
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decrease in investments in Finland, which has prolonged the recovery from the collapse of productivity growth during the …
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decrease in investments in Finland, which has prolonged the recovery from the collapse of productivity growth during the …
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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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Corporate investment is crucial for productivity growth. When economic growth is sluggish and productivity growth weak … connection between public indebtedness and productivity growth from the point of view of private investment. According to … existing economic research, public debt crowds out private investment slowing down both economic and productivity growth. Our …
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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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Corporate investment is crucial for productivity growth. When economic growth is sluggish and productivity growth weak … connection between public indebtedness and productivity growth from the point of view of private investment. According to … existing economic research, public debt crowds out private investment slowing down both economic and productivity growth. Our …
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This study develops a sectoral econometric forecasting model of total factor productivity (TFP). In this model … large and persistent effects on productivity growth especially in the capital-intensive sectors of the economy. Policy …
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Information and communications technology, global value chains, and population ageing are changing the structures of the labour market. These three factors affect the tasks carried out in Finland in the future and the division of labour between humans and computers. The changes are taking place...
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