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We Need More Useful Basic Knowledge about the Effectiveness of Public Employment Services

Asplund Rita
This Brief first discusses why policy decision-making concerning public employment services (PES) needs to rely also on evidence-based knowledge
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Profitability of Industries, Labour Market Flows, and Creative Destruction in Finnish Manufacturing

Maliranta MikaMäättänen Niku
An often-expressed concern is that new technologies related to e.g. automation and robotization accelerate job destruction and increase the
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Tariffs and Threats: President Trump’s Trade Policy and Its Consequences to Finland

Nilsson Hakkala KatariinaWang MariaKuusi Tero
This Brief analyzes president Trump’s trade policy and its implications for Finland. We focus on the import tariffs imposed
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Impacts of the Largest Export Guaranteed Operations in Finland

Ali-Yrkkö JyrkiKuusi Tero
This study focuses on the impacts of the largest export guaranteed operations on employment and value added including effects
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Data Ownership and Governance – Finnish Law Perspective

Seppälä TimoJuhanko JariMattila Juri
As a general rule, information and data cannot be owned. Information and data may belong to various actors, but
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Finland Needs New Ways of Financing Transport Infrastructure

Hyytinen AriMäättänen NikuVihriälä Vesa
Motor fuel tax revenue is likely to decrease in the coming years because of the shift to electric cars.
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Forecasting Activity at Etla in 1971–2018

Kotilainen Markku
The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (Etla) started its business cycle forecasting activity in 1971. Forecasts have thus
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Regional Economic Disparities in Finland

Fornaro Paolo
In this note, I study the Finnish regional dispersion of economic indicators such as the GDP per capita, labour
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The Role of Individuals, Firms and the Society in Lifelong Learning

Kauhanen Antti
Labor market restructuring has sparked discussion on lifelong learning. One important question deals with the proper distribution of responsibility
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Do Personal Data Related Innovation Boost Firm Value?

Koski Heli
Personal data is increasingly used in business value creation. Data from the years 2007–2014 suggest that firms’ personal data
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Lightweight Suggestion from the Commission to Reform the Financing of the EU Budget

Valkonen Tarmo
EU budget is currently financed almost fully by Own Resources, which are based on customs, Gross National Income, and
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Market Discipline and Liquidity Key Issues in the EMU Reform

Vihriälä Vesa
The EMU institutions need to be reformed. There is, however, a deep disagreement about the right way to proceed.
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Etla’s Forecast Errors in 2014–2017

Berg-Andersson BirgittaKaitila VilleKaseva HannuKotilainen MarkkuLehmus Markku
In forecasts for years 2014–2015 the Finnish GDP growth was overestimated, and in forecasts for years 2016–2017 it was
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Parental Income and Application Decisions in Post-secondary Education

Laukkonen Marja-Lisa
In 2018, the higher education institutions should no longer use entrance examinations that require extensive preparation and, instead, evaluate
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Export Product Range and Economic Performance – An Emphasis on Small Advanced EU Countries

Kaitila Ville
We analyse the number of different HS8 products in the EU countries’ exports in 1995–2015. We review what share,
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Know the Present to Understand the Future: Nowcasting and Forecasting the Finnish Economy

Fornaro Paolo
This report concerns the relationship between forecasting and nowcasting (i.e. the production of real-time estimates of key economic indicators),
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Three Measures to Safeguard Funding for Research and Education

Määttänen NikuVihriälä Vesa
Funding for research and education needs to be increased relative to the existing plans. This is difficult, given the
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Supervisor’s Support and Job Satisfaction

Böckerman PetriKangasniemi MariKauhanen Antti
Support from supervisor and coworkers are strongly associated with better job satisfaction. The role of support is not limited
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Does High-involvement Management Improve Productivity?

Böckerman PetriKangasniemi MariKauhanen Antti
There is a positive correlation between the use of high-involvement management practices and firm productivity. However, this correlation does
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One Tenth of New Entrepreneurial Activity in Finland is Multicultural

Pajarinen MikaRouvinen Petri
In this brief, we study the cultural dimension of new entrepreneurial activity in Finland. One in ten nascent entrepreneurs
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Supercell Joins a Mobile Internet Giant: Fitting into Tencent’s Overall Business Strategy

Jia KaiKenney MartinSeppälä Timo
On June 21, 2016, Tencent, the Chinese mobile internet giant spent $8.6 billion to purchase 84.3% stock of Supercell,
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Earnings-related Unemployment Security, Employment and Lifetime Income

Määttänen NikuValkonen Tarmo
Earnings-related unemployment benefits weaken markedly the economic incentives for searching and accepting a job. This study estimates that the
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Situation of Young NEETs Needs Better Interpretation

Asplund RitaVanhala Pekka
Over the past months there have been lively discussions about Finnish NEETs, i.e. those young people who are Not
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Switching to Full Wage Indexing of Earnings Related Pension Benefits Would Be Costly

Lassila JukkaMäättänen NikuValkonen Tarmo
A recent citizens’ initiative calls for a switch from indexing pension benefits to consumer prices (80%) and wages (20%)

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