The evolution and challenges of gender pay equality

The project explores the level and changes over time in the gender wage gap of four particular branches of the Finnish private sector: logistics, enterprise services, telecommunications and special services. Attempts are also made to identify major background factors affecting observed gender wage gaps. The research work is based on the comprehensive wage database of […]

Youth Unemployment in the Nordic Countries

The project produces extensive cross-country comparative evidence on the dynamic nature of the labour market situation of youth in the Nordic countries and identifies key pathways of youth leaving school with different levels of education. While the emphasis is on school-to-work transitions, including early career experience, attempts will also be made to assess the role […]

ICT, service innovations and productivity

The project studies productivity enhancing mechanisms in the service sector with the emphasis being on . how to effectively combine ICT with intangible investments. The results of the project can be utilized in policy initiatives aimed at improving productivity, innovation policy and management of private and public services. The first part of the project analyzes […]

Career and wage dynamics within and between firms

The fields of personnel and organizational economics have started to develop and test models of the internal workings of firms, paying particular attention to careers within firms. This project takes a new approach on career and wage dynamics by using a large longitudinal linked employer-employee dataset. By adopting this approach, we make the following three […]

Technology choices, experimentation and systemic changes: An economic perspective

Finland has advanced from a technology follower towards a technology leader. Firms’ technology choices are increasingly risky. For various reasons there may be too little experimentation and risk taking compared to the social optimum. This calls for a policy intervention. We develop numerical models for (pre-)evaluating alternative policies.

Will production relocate from Asia to Finland? Case Bicycle (in Finnish with English abstract and summary)

In this paper, we study the value chain of a Finnish designed bicycle and how the value added of the product is spread through the value chain in three distinct cases. In the first case the bicycle is manufactured in Finland by the researched company. In the two other cases the manufacturing of the bicycle […]

The evolution and challenges of gender pay equality

The project explores the level and changes over time in the gender wage gap of four particular branches of the Finnish private sector: logistics, enterprise services, telecommunications and special services. Attempts are also made to identify major background factors affecting observed gender wage gaps. The research work is based on the comprehensive wage database of […]

Youth Unemployment in the Nordic Countries

The project produces extensive cross-country comparative evidence on the dynamic nature of the labour market situation of youth in the Nordic countries and identifies key pathways of youth leaving school with different levels of education. While the emphasis is on school-to-work transitions, including early career experience, attempts will also be made to assess the role […]

ICT, service innovations and productivity

The project studies productivity enhancing mechanisms in the service sector with the emphasis being on . how to effectively combine ICT with intangible investments. The results of the project can be utilized in policy initiatives aimed at improving productivity, innovation policy and management of private and public services. The first part of the project analyzes […]

Career and wage dynamics within and between firms

The fields of personnel and organizational economics have started to develop and test models of the internal workings of firms, paying particular attention to careers within firms. This project takes a new approach on career and wage dynamics by using a large longitudinal linked employer-employee dataset. By adopting this approach, we make the following three […]

Technology choices, experimentation and systemic changes: An economic perspective

Finland has advanced from a technology follower towards a technology leader. Firms’ technology choices are increasingly risky. For various reasons there may be too little experimentation and risk taking compared to the social optimum. This calls for a policy intervention. We develop numerical models for (pre-)evaluating alternative policies.

Will production relocate from Asia to Finland? Case Bicycle (in Finnish with English abstract and summary)

In this paper, we study the value chain of a Finnish designed bicycle and how the value added of the product is spread through the value chain in three distinct cases. In the first case the bicycle is manufactured in Finland by the researched company. In the two other cases the manufacturing of the bicycle […]