Publications

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (forthcoming) Publication year: 2011 Language: English Other articles 556

Oxford Economic Papers (2012) Vol 64:2, pp. 259-280 Publication year: 2011 Pages: 22 Language: English Other articles 555

The study investigates empirically how ownership affects firms’ domestic employment and its fluctuations. We look at six different ownership categories : first generation family businesses, second generation (or older) family businesses, state-owned companies, foreign-owned companies, publicly listed companies, and others (e.g. co-operatives and non-listed, non-family companies). It turns out that ownership matters. Volatility of employment

We examine gender differences in careers using a large linked employer-employee dataset on Finnish white-collar manufacturing workers over the period of 1981–2006. Our focus is on labour market entrants whom we follow over time. We find that men start their careers from higher ranks of the hierarchy than women do, although gender differences in education

The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies. Research Papers no. 369 Key words: intermediates trade, supply chain, trade collapse JEL: F14 Publication year: 2011 Pages: 190 Language: English Other articles 592

Available statistics tell us little about the economic consequences of increasing global dispersion of production processes. In order to shed light on the issue, we perform grass roots detective work to uncover the geography of value added in the case of a Nokia N95 smartphone circa 2007. The phone was assembled in Finland and China.