At last: A brighter outlook for the euro area

The outlook for the euro area economy has improved considerably in recent months. Not only did real GDP increase in the second quarter for the first time in two years, it will even accelerate during the second half of 2013.

Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

Industrial Relations. A Journal of Economy and Society. Vol. 52:4, pp. 878-941, October 2013  

Where do workers engaged in shrinking jobs end up – and why?

This project will identify shrinking job tasks in the Finnish private sector, describe the transition pathways into other jobs of those engaged in these shrinking tasks, and explore the potential influence on the observed pathways of a broad set of background factors and mechanisms (linked to the individual, the job, the employer, etc.). Doing so, […]

Evaluation of the Academy of Finland

Reports of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland 2013:14

Microsoft Acquires Nokia: Implications for the Two Companies and Finland

Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s phone business has considerable implications for Nokia and potentially for Finland as a country, but little immediate effects on Microsoft and related industries. One might ask, couldn’t there have been better remedies for the challenges both Microsoft and Nokia were facing?

Industry restructuring in the ICT sector – What does labor mobility tell us about skill relatedness and knowledge spillovers?

Industries go through different phases of evolution where old skills become obsolete and new skills arecrucial for the industrial renewal process. Industry evolution is usually addressed from the perspectives of production and exports, leaving one factor largely unexplored: human capital. Industry restructuring isa dynamic process where skills developed in one industry move to other industries […]

At last: A brighter outlook for the euro area

The outlook for the euro area economy has improved considerably in recent months. Not only did real GDP increase in the second quarter for the first time in two years, it will even accelerate during the second half of 2013.

Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

Industrial Relations. A Journal of Economy and Society. Vol. 52:4, pp. 878-941, October 2013  

Where do workers engaged in shrinking jobs end up – and why?

This project will identify shrinking job tasks in the Finnish private sector, describe the transition pathways into other jobs of those engaged in these shrinking tasks, and explore the potential influence on the observed pathways of a broad set of background factors and mechanisms (linked to the individual, the job, the employer, etc.). Doing so, […]

Evaluation of the Academy of Finland

Reports of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland 2013:14

Microsoft Acquires Nokia: Implications for the Two Companies and Finland

Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s phone business has considerable implications for Nokia and potentially for Finland as a country, but little immediate effects on Microsoft and related industries. One might ask, couldn’t there have been better remedies for the challenges both Microsoft and Nokia were facing?

Industry restructuring in the ICT sector – What does labor mobility tell us about skill relatedness and knowledge spillovers?

Industries go through different phases of evolution where old skills become obsolete and new skills arecrucial for the industrial renewal process. Industry evolution is usually addressed from the perspectives of production and exports, leaving one factor largely unexplored: human capital. Industry restructuring isa dynamic process where skills developed in one industry move to other industries […]