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It Takes Three to Tango in Employment: Matching Vocational Education Organisations, Studies and Companies in Labour Markets

Maliranta, Mika - Nurmi, Satu - Virtanen, Hanna

Universität Zürich ISU Working Paper No 22 Publication year: 2008 Pages: 79 Language: English Other articles 434

Workplace Innovations and Employee Outcomes: Evidence from Finland

Kalmi, Panu - Kauhanen, Antti

Industrial Relations, Vol. 47 iss. 3, pp. 430-459, July 2008 Publication year: 2008 Pages: 30 Language: English Other articles 439

Opacity of Young Businesses: Evidence from Rating Disagreement

Hyytinen, Ari - Pajarinen, Mika

Journal of Banking & Finance, Vol. 32, iss. 7, pp. 1234-1241, July 2008 Key words: asymmetric information, opacity, small business finance, financial constraints JEL: G14, G31, G32 Publication year: 2008 Pages: 8 Language: English Other articles 440

On the Importance of Borrowing Constraints for House Price Dynamics

Eerola, Essi - Määttänen, Niku

Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 8/2008 We study how a household borrowing constraint the the form of a down payment requirement affects house price dynamics in an OLG model with standard preferences. We find that in certain situations the borrowing constraint shapes house price dynamics substantially. The importance of the constraint depends very

When Do Employees Leave Their Job for Entrepreneurship?

Hyytinen, Ari - Maliranta, Mika

Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2008), Vol. 110, issue 1, pp. 1-22 Existing firms are argued to be an important source of new entrepreneurs. Yet, relatively little is known about the characteristics of firms that breed new entrepreneurs. We use a large linked employee–employer dataset to trace and characterize the types of firms which generate new

The labour market consequences of self-employment spells: European evidence

Hyytinen, Ari - Rouvinen, Petri

Labour Economics, Vol. 15:2, April 2008, p. 246-271 We examine how those re-entering paid-employment after a brief self-employment spell fare upon return using data from the European Community Household Panel. Unconditionally, those re-entering paid-employment appear to have considerably lower wages than those staying in the wage sector. This difference appears to be larger in Europe