The aim of this paper is to describe divergences in employers’ and employees’ opinions on the proper share of local bargaining in contract wage gains, and explain when these divergences are particularly large or small. The paper shows that employers want the locally bargained wage share to...

The aim of this paper is to analyse active ageing and retirement in Finland at both the individual worker level and the firm level. The Finnish pension system will undergo some remarkable changes from the year 2005 on: the whole of an individual’s working life will determine his or her pension...

This paper examines the regional distribution of the observable and hidden professional competence of engineers and graduates of economics and business administration in Finland. The objective is to determine where the “cutting edge” of Finnish human capital is located. The estimation...

Tutkimuksen tärkeimpänä tavoitteena on palkanasetannan teorioihin pohjautuen tutkia erilaisten yritysten tarvetta paikalliseen joustonvaraan palkankorotuksissa. Tutkimuksen toisena tavoitteena on muodostaa kokonaiskuva palkkaneuvottelujen etenemisestä suomalaisessa...

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...

Intangibles and especially organisational capital are an important source of capital deepening in European countries, albeit with significant cross-country differences. The GDP in the EU27 area is 5.5% higher if certain categories of expenditure, which have until now been considered as current...

Finnish regions increased their exports in special industries from 1999 to 2013. This internationalization of industries in regions is measured by the adjusted Balassa's revealed comparative advantage index. It has been shown that innovation potential has not increased, even though R&D drives...

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...