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Productivity Divergence – Frontier Firms vs. the Others
Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri; Ylhäinen, Ilkka - 2017
International literature suggests that productivity growth of the global frontier firms – those in the best five … productivity of the Finnish frontier firms does not diverge from the others to such a degree as in the international comparisons …
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ICT, skills, and organisational change: Evidence from a panel of Italian manufacturing firms
Giuri, Paola; Torrisi, Salvatore; Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2005
. Our findings suggest that the productivity gains from investments in the three innovative activities are related to firm …
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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth : An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - 2005
MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use … show a significant impact of openness on productivity growth. We find also an effect, significant at the ten per cent level …, of the level of human capital on the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262187
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Sleeping
Laufey Asgeirsdottir, Tinna - 2008
Sleep is a source of energy. This energy is available in limited quantity and individuals must decide when it should be renewed and when it should be consumed. The economics of sleeping and the economics of resource extraction are one and the same. More specifically, utility maximization with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306470
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Human capital and economic activity in urban America
Abel, Jaison R.; Gabe, Todd M. - 2008
We examine the relationship between human capital and economic activity in U.S. metropolitan areas, extending the literature in two ways. First, we utilize new data on metropolitan area GDP to measure economic activity. Results show that a one-percentage-point increase in the proportion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283514
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Career and wage dynamics: Evidence from linked employer-employee data
Kauhanen, Antti; Napari, Sami - 2011
We study career and wage dynamics within and between firms using a large linked employer-employee panel dataset spanning 26 years. We construct six-level hierarchies for more than 5,000 firms. We replicate most of the analyses from Baker, Gibbs and Holmström (Quarterly Journal of Economics,...
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Intangible capital and wages: An analysis of wage gaps across occupations and genders in Czech Republic, Finland and Norway
Asplund, Rita; Napari, Sami - 2011
comparative data from three European countries: the Czech Republic, Finland and Norway. The analysis is undertaken in two steps …
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How fast do wages adjust to human-capital productivity? Dynamic panel-data evidence from Belgium, Denmark and Finland
Andini, Corrado - 2009
monetary value of the individual net human-capital productivity, the so-called net potential wage. We argue that this … assumption is rejected by the ECHP data for Belgium, Denmark and Finland. The empirical evidence supports a dynamic approach to … dynamic panel-data wage equation and provide measures of the speed of adjustment in Belgium, Denmark and Finland. Further, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271292
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Toimihenkilöiden työ- ja palkkaurat Suomen teollisuudessa
Jokinen, Juha-Pekka - 2009
In this study we focus on differences in careers and wage development between white-collar workers. We are interested in the questions of which factors contribute to these differences and at what stage of the career they occur. Furthermore, we investigate the wage effects of the different types...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272986
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Koulutus työmarkkinasignaalina
Leino, Topias - 2008
reform had a positive effect on average productivity, one should not make any hasty generalizations from this result … regarding the whole educational system. The sample used in the empirical analysis consists of over 120 000 men, born in Finland … between 1962 and 1966. It is a cross-section of the Finnish Longitudinal Census Data File generated by Statistics Finland. …
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