Globalisaation on tällä hetkellä hyvin ajankohtainen keskustelunaihe sekä teollisuusmaissa että kehitysmaissa. Teollisuusmaiden osalta keskustelu on suhteellisen pragmaattista, mutta kehitysmaiden tapauksessa siihen liittyy enemmän poliittisia ja sosiaalisia näkemyseroja. Markku...

This book explores the impact of public R&D funding on the economic performance of Finnish firms, especially in terms of productivity growth and job creation. Special attention is thereby paid to the potential influence exerted by two crucial characteristics of firms – their size and their...

This book reveals the importance of the forest-based and related industries of the European Union, which is a large economic entity, providing widespread benefits to the whole of the EU. Combined, these industries provide direct employment for over 4 million people, have a turnover of 400...

Available statistics tell us little about the economic consequences of increasing global dispersion of production processes. In order to shed light on the issue, we perform grass roots detective work to uncover the geography of value added in the case of a Nokia N95 smartphone circa 2007. The...

The study investigates empirically how ownership affects firms domestic employment and its fluctuations. We look at six different ownership categories : first generation family businesses, second generation (or older) family businesses, state-owned companies, foreign-owned companies, publicly...

We examine gender differences in careers using a large linked employer-employee dataset on Finnish white-collar manufacturing workers over the period of 19812006. Our focus is on labour market entrants whom we follow over time. We find that men start their careers from higher ranks of the...

The paper compares the gender wage differentials of two occupation groups innovation and non-innovation workers separately for manufacturing and services using Finnish private-sector data. We apply a decomposition method based on unconditional quantile regression techniques to identify key...

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,...

This paper studies a retail chain that introduced a sales incentive plan that rewarded for exceeding a sales target and subsequently cut the incentive intensity in addition to increasing the target. Utilizing monthly panel data for 54 months for all 53 units of the chain the paper shows that the...