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Etla to examine productivity in the service sector and the renewal of companies in two new multi-year research projects

Etla to examine productivity in the service sector and the renewal of companies in two new multi-year research projects
In autumn 2023, two big research projects will start in Etla, both funded by Business Finland.
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More efficient allocation of labour and capital would increase productivity and economic wellbeing

More efficient allocation of labour and capital would increase productivity and economic wellbeing
The misallocation of labour and capital in the Finnish business sector has increased in the 2000s.
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Why is labour productivity development lagging in Finland? “Plenty of room for improvement in resource reallocation”

Why is labour productivity development lagging in Finland? “Plenty of room for improvement in resource reallocation”
Labour productivity in Finland’s national economy has been stagnating at the 2007 level for more than a decade.
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Research develops a new method for assessing productivity

Research develops a new method for assessing productivity
An article by Etla researcher Natalia Kuosmanen develops a new productivity assessment method.
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Digital technologies and labor productivity?

Ailisto HeikkiHiekkanen KariKortelainen HelenaSeppälä Timo
Digital technologies and labor productivity?
Global and national changes in the operating environment are forcing companies to expand their support functions. This delivers value
Publications Working Papers 26

Service productivity, technology and organization – Converting theory to praxis

Viitamo Esa
The growth of services - leveraged by the servitization of manufacturing - stresses the urgency of novel approaches and
Publications Working Papers 11

Allocation and industry productivity: Accounting for firm turnover

Maliranta MikaMäättänen Niku
Recent macroeconomic literature has stressed the importance of resource allocation between firms for aggregate productivity. An important issue, therefore,
Publications Reports 9

The Nature of the Finnish Competitiveness Problem

Maliranta MikaVihriälä Vesa
We assess Finland’s competitiveness in the light of various, mainly short-term indicators. It turns out that the weak export
Publications Reports 6

International Investment and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Small Open Economies

Kaitila VilleMcQuinn JohnSiedschlag IuliaZhang Xiaoheng
This paper examines the causal link between foreign investment and firm performance in six small open economies in the
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How foreign companies in Finland differ from Finnish-owned enterprises? (In Finnish with English abstract)

Kaitila Ville
We analyse foreign-owned companies operating in Finland and compare them with domestic non-multinational firms while controlling separately for domestic
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Productivity: An International Comparison

Hyvärinen Jari
This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of productivity are compared
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Innovaatiotoiminta – Suomi globaalitaloudessa. Loppuraportti

Hyvärinen Jari
This study analyses those country characteristics, which lead those regions to become as productive operation and innovation environments for
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Innovaatiotoiminta – Näkemyksiä hyvinvointialaan ja työelämän kehittämiseen

Hyvärinen Jari
This study examines structures and challenges in the Finnish well-being sector from the innovation activity perspective. Firstly, it compares
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Kilpailukyky ja globaalin toimintaympäristön muutos – Suomen koneteollisuus maailmantaloudessa

Suni PaavoYlä-Anttila Pekka
The report analyses the impacts of globalization on competitiveness of national economies, industries and firms. The focus is in
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Firm Lifecycles and External Restructuring

Hyytinen AriMaliranta Mika
This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a
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Suhdanne- ja rakennekriisi yhtä aikaa? Toimiala- ja yritysrakenteen muutokset taantumassa

Maliranta MikaMankinen ReijoSuni PaavoYlä-Anttila Pekka
The study shows that the exceptional drop in volume of Finland’s GDP in 2009 – as much as 8
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Marginal Intra Industry Trade Expansion and Productivity Growth

Kaitila Ville
We use the concept of marginal intra-industry trade (MIIT) to analyse the effect of trade expansion on labour productivity
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Työolot ja tuottavuus – työpaikkavirtojen nosteessa vai puristuksessa?

Ilmakunnas PekkaJohansson EdvardMaliranta Mika
Analyses in this paper do not support the idea that job and worker flows have become more intensive and
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Durable Goods and ICT: The Drivers of Euro Area Productivity growth?

Jalava JukkaKavonius Ilja Kristian
The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effect of durable goods and ICT on Euro Area economic
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Measuring Productivity – Finland in an International Comparison

Kaitila VilleNevalainen AnniMaliranta MikaMankinen Reijo
We compare the levels and development of labour productivity in different countries, especially in the private sectors of the
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Tax/benefit Systems and Growth Potential of the EU

Alho Kari E. O. (ed.)
The EU has ambitious goals in terms of economic performance. The goals are to be reached in combination with
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The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Firm Performance – Preliminary Evidence from Finland

Jones Derek C.Kalmi PanuKato TakaoMäkinen Mikko
This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the nature and effects of human resource practices (HRM) in the
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The software industry in Finland

Ali-Yrkkö JyrkiMartikainen Olli
The purpose of this paper is to assess the current state of the software industry in Finland. The GDP
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Essays on the Impacts of Technology Development and R&D Subsidies

Ali-Yrkkö Jyrki
This thesis studies the impacts of technology development and R&D subsidies. The first essay examines whether public and private

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