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From creative destruction to human capital growth: Wage dispersion effects in Finland

Piekkola, Hannu - 2002

In Finland the shifts in compensation have been of a similar kind compared to those in the US, but moderate with increasing wage variance between plants, an increasing gap between average non-productive and productive worker wages and an increasing share of non-production workers. In the deep...

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Profit sharing in Finland: Earnings and productivity effects

Kauhanen, Antti; Piekkola, Hannu - 2002

The aim of this paper is to examine profit sharing using Finnish linked employer-employee data in 1996-2000. The use of profit sharing is predicted by the share of the highly educated, R&D and capital intensity, business risk, firm size and the desire to have some stability in the skilled...

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The perils of altering incentive plans: A case study

Kauhanen, Antti - 2011

subsequently cut the incentive intensity in addition to increasing the target. Utilizing monthly panel data for 54 months for all …

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Job satisfaction in Finland: Some results from the European Community household panel 1996 - 2001

Johansson, Edvard - 2004

Household Panel. In general, Finnish research on job satisfaction using economics methodology is very scarce. Therefore, the …Tässä paperissa tutkitaan työtyytyväisyyteen vaikuttavia tekijöitä käyttäen European Community Household Panel …

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The determinants of stock option compensation: Evidence from Finland

Jones, Derek C.; Kalmi, Panu; Mäkinen, Mikko - 2004

A new, long and rich panel data set consisting of all Finnish publicly traded firms is used to study how firm …

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Retirement decisions and option values: Their application regarding Finland, Belgium and Germany

Piekkola, Hannu; Deschryvere, Matthias - 2004

systems on retirement behaviour. The analysis uses the first 8 waves (1994-2001) of the European Community Household Panel … kahdeksan vuotta (1994-2001) eurooppalaisessa kotitalousaineistossa European Community Household Panel (ECHP). Tarkastelussa …

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Alcohol consumption and sickness absence: Evidence from panel data

Johansson, Edvard; Böckerman, Petri; Uutela, Antti - 2007

regional panel data from Finland over the period 1993-2005. The data on individuals’ health that we are using originates from … regional statistics produced by Statistics Finland. Panel data allows us to control for unobserved determinants of lifestyle … confirmed in a regional panel data setting. Conclusion : It is important to take into account the effects of alcohol consumption …

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The impact of council voting rules on EU decision-making

Widgrén, Mika - 2008

This paper deals with the design of voting rules in the EU Council. Both internal and external impact of the voting rules are examined. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects power relations between the main decision-making bodies in...

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Citizens should vote on secession

Eerola, Essi; Määttänen, Niku; Poutvaara, Panu - 2004

The draft treaty establishing a constitution for the European Union states that each member state may withdraw from the European Union following its own constitutional requirements. We argue that such a rule could lead into an increased use of threat of withdrawal to extract concessions in...

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The European Commission: Appointment, preferences, and institutional relations

Napel, Stefan; Widgrén, Mika - 2006

The paper analyzes the appointment of the European Commission as a strategic game between members of the EU's Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. The focal equilibrium results in Commissioners that duplicate policy preferences of national Council representatives. Different internal...

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