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Estimating Firm Digitalization: A Method for Disaggregating Sector-level Digital Intensity to Firm-level

Mucha TomaszSeppälä Timo
The digital transformation of firms plays an increasingly important role in the economy and society. However, limited access to
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The influence of old-age retirement on health: Causal evidence from the Finnish register data

Kuusi TeroMartikainen PekkaValkonen Tarmo
We quantify the impact of old-age retirement on health using longitudinal Finnish register data for the period 2000–2012. The
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The Top Three Pension Systems: Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands

Hougaard Jensen Svend E.Lassila JukkaMäättänen NikuValkonen TarmoWesterhout Ed
According to the 2018 Mercer Global Pension Index, the pension systems of Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands are the
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Data Sharing in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains – Case European Medicines Verification System

Levänen LauraHalminen OlliTenhunen HenniSeppälä Timo
We study the perceived value derived from data sharing activities by the representatives of a Nordic pharmaceutical company in
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The Finnish Pension System and Its Future Challenges

Valkonen Tarmo
The Finnish pension system has succeeded in gaining high social, and reasonable financial sustainability. The balance between reaching the
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Commercial Adoption of AI in the Healthcare Sector: An Exploratory Analysis of S&P500 Companies

Mucha TomaszHalminen OlliTenhunen HenniSeppälä Timo
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies within the healthcare sector is growing. However, there are differences in the
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Determinants of Prescription Opioid Use: Population‐based Evidence from Finland

Böckerman PetriHaapanen MikaHakulinen ChristianKarhunen HannuMaczulskij Terhi
Background and aims Previous studies have shown that prescription opioid use is more common in socio-economically disadvantaged communities in
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ICTs and the Urban-rural Divide: Can Online Labour Platforms Bridge the Gap?

Braesemann FabianKässi OttoLehdonvirta Vili
Information and communication technologies have long been predicted to spread economic opportunities to rural areas. However, the actual trend
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Measuring the Gender Wage Gap – A Methodological Note

Maczulskij TerhiNyblom Jukka
We propose to estimate the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition by a single-equation model augmented with interactions between the group membership and
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Within and Between Firm Trends in Job Polarization: The Roles of Globalization and Technology

Kerr SariMaczulskij TerhiMaliranta Mika
We analyze occupational polarization within and across firms using a census of matched employer–employee panel data from Finland in
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What Company Characteristics Are Associated With the Adoption of Social Media?

Koski HeliPajarinen MikaRouvinen Petri
In just one decade, social media have moved from being marginal phenomena to having three billion active monthly users
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Factors Affecting Venture Funding of Healthcare AI Companies

Halminen OlliTenhunen HenniHeliste AnttiSeppälä Timo
Venture Capital (VC) funding raised by companies producing Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) solutions is on the
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Internal and External Hiring

DeVaro JedKauhanen AnttiValmari Nelli
Using large-scale, linked, employer–employee, Finnish panel data, the authors examine firms’ internal versus external hiring decisions more comprehensively than
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Platforms and Industrial Change

Kenney MartinRouvinen PetriSeppälä TimoZysman John
Digital platforms are reorganising markets, restructuring the labour force, and redefining the scope of competition. These new intermediaries are
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Bonuses and Promotion Tournaments: Theory and Evidence

Emre EkinciKauhanen AnttiWaldman Michael
Standard models of promotion tournaments do not distinguish between wages and bonuses and thus cannot explain variation in the
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Does Job Design Make Workers Happy?

Böckerman PetriBryson AlexKauhanen AnttiKangasniemi Mari
Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design, employee well-being and job-related stress. Three key
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The Roles of Job and Worker Restructuring in Aggregate Wage Growth Dynamics

Kauhanen AnttiMaliranta Mika
We propose an approach for measuring and analyzing the dynamics of the standard aggregate wage growth of macro statistics
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Skimping on Gas – Reducing Ethereum Transaction Costs in a Blockchain Electricity Market Application

Hukkinen TaneliMattila JuriSeppälä TimoSmolander KariGooden Tobias
In recent years, information systems have not been largely evaluated by their operating costs, but mainly by their strategic
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Longevity, Working Lives, and Public Finances

Lassila JukkaValkonen Tarmo
We find that linking statutory retirement ages to life expectancy is a promising way to extend working lives and
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Performance Pay and Enterprise Productivity: The Details Matter

Kato TakaoKauhanen Antti
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide novel and rigorous evidence on the productivity effect of varying
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Expanding the Platform: Smart Contracts as Boundary Resources

Lauslahti KristianMattila JuriHukkinen TaneliSeppälä Timo
Platform businesses are born global, with instant access to global markets. Thanks to the algorithmic, self-executing and self-enforcing computer
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Output Gap Uncertainty and the Optimal Fiscal Policy in the EU

Kuusi Tero
Abstract Using a novel dataset, I quantify the magnitude of the EU-27 countries’ output gap revisions in 2002–2014, and
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Distributed Governance in Multi-sided Platforms: A Conceptual Framework from Case: Bitcoin

Mattila JuriSeppälä Timo
Over the last decade, blockchain technology has facilitated a method by which a network of equipotent and equally privileged
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The Finnish Great Depression of the 1990s: reconciling theory and evidence

Kuusi Tero
Abstract This paper reconciles quantitative macroeconomic theory of the Finnish Great Depression and the empirical evidence. The main controversy

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