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Innovator Mobility in Finland and Denmark

Bagger, Jesper; Maliranta, Mika; Määttänen, Niku; … - 2016

innovation are quickly matched to innovators. The mobility of innovators is also important for positive knowledge spillovers to …Workers have different abilities in research, development and innovation (R&D&I) activities. Firms have different … “prospects for innovation”. Innovation is facilitated by matching innovators, i.e. workers that are specialized in R&D&I to firms …

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International Investment and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Small Open Economies

Kaitila, Ville; McQuinn, John; Siedschlag, Iulia; … - 2013

This paper examines the causal link between foreign investment and firm performance in six small open economies in the European Union. Specifically, using micro data for manufacturing and services over the period 2001–2009, we analyse the effects of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour...

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Business and Intellectual Capital Development in Financial Riptide - Case Studies of Finnish Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Companies Dispersing into Global Value Chains

Kulvik, Martti; Tähtinen, Marja; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - 2013

companies. It appears that important knowledge has vested by learning from earlier mistakes, and this learning period has …

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Tulevaisuuden työmarkkinat

Kauhanen, Antti - 2014

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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Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Finland

Fornaro, Paolo - 2018

innovation and to market dynamics. This report touches multiple aspects of immigrant entrepreneurship in Finland, looking at the …

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Maahanmuuttajien yritystoiminnan merkitys Suomen työllisyyden ja tuottavuuden yritysdynamiikalle

Maliranta, Mika; Nurmi, Satu - 2019

We examine the growth of real value added, labour input and labour productivity of immigrant-owned firms in Finland in 2007–2016. In our analysis we use the so-called FLOWN (Finnish Longitudinal OWNer-Employer-Employee) data by Statistics Finland that allows linking register information on...

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Asevelvollisuuden kustannukset

Kaitila, Ville; Määttänen, Niku - 2021

We describe the costs of the conscription system from different perspectives. In particular, we consider the definition of opportunity cost related to the service time of conscripts. This is a cost that is not directly reflected in the state budget. In addition, we review related literature and...

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Teknologisen kehityksen vaikutus työllisyyteen

Kauhanen, Antti - 2021

In order to understand the employment effects of technological progress, it is useful to separate three types of technologies: 1) automation technologies, 2) technologies that create new tasks, and 3) capital- or labor-augmenting technologies. These different types of technological advances...

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Supistuvissa ammateissa toimineet: Aikuiskoulutukseen osallistuminen vähäistä

Asplund, Rita; Kauhanen, Antti; Vanhala, Pekka - 2019

Occupational restructuring means that worker skills need to be updated, broadened or totally renewed. This report focuses on persons whose employment prospects have been particularly challenged by occupational restructuring: persons who in the mid-1990s were employed in occupations characterized...

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Innovation, Firm Risk and Industry Productivity

Maliranta, Mika; Määttänen, Niku - 2014

Radical innovations require risk-taking. However, it is hard to find an objective measure for innovation investments … that would take riskiness into account. In this paper, we investigate how a simple measure of firms’ innovation investments …. We then build a simple model where firms’ innovation activities and firm risk are interrelated. We use the model to …

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