We study immigrants’ effects on firm-level innovativeness. Managers, innovators, and other employees are considered as separate groups both in firm employment and in local areas. For each, we estimate the effects of foreignness, the share of immigrants in each group, and diversity, while...

This paper reviews the characteristics and magnitude of information technology (IT) outsourcing as well as studies its labor productivity effects with a representative sample of Finnish businesses. Depending on the IT task in question, on average from one-third to two-thirds of IT has been...

Tässä raportissa tarkastellaan aineettomien investointien eriä Tilastokeskuksen mikroaineistoilla. Jo yritystasolla aineettomat investoinnit ovat suurempia kuin aineelliset ja niiden huomioiminen muuttaa käsityksiämme monista perussuureista: esimerkiksi yrityssektorin arvonlisäyksen taso...

Labor productivity effects of portability as well as wireline and wireless connectivity of information and communication technology (ICT) are studied with Finnish firm-level data. It is found that a computer with only processing and storage capabilities boosts labor productivity by 9%...

This report concludes the first phase of The economic effects of information and communication technology research project. Its primary objectives were to compile the necessary data, establish research links, and conduct preliminary analysis. The findings show that widespread use of ICT is...

An employer-employee panel is used to study whether the movement of workers across firms is a channel of unintended diffusion of R&D-generated knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, hiring workers from others’ R&D labs to one’s own does not seem to be a significant spillover channel. Hiring...

This paper reviews the characteristics and magnitude of information technology (IT) outsourcing as well as studies its labor productivity effects with a representative sample of Finnish businesses. Depending on the IT task in question, on average from one-third to two-thirds of IT has been...