Working Papers

Personality and Public Sector Employment

Using a representative survey combined with register data on long-term labour market outcomes, this paper examines how personality traits

The Effect of Access to Post-Compulsory Education: Evidence from Structural Breaks in School Supply

Virtanen HannaRiukula Krista

We study how reducing the regional supply of post-compulsory education affects schooling choices and educational attainment in Finland. We

08.12.2020 Julkaisut Working Papers 84

It’s in the News: Developing a Real Time Index for Economic Uncertainty Based on Finnish News Titles

Avela AleksiLehmus Markku

Uncertainty may affect economic behavior of individuals and firms in a wide variety of ways, with typically negative consequences

11.11.2020 Julkaisut Working Papers 83

Heterogeneous Impacts of the Decentralization of Collective Bargaining

Kauhanen AnttiMaczulskij TerhiRiukula Krista

This paper analyses the heterogeneous effects of the decentralization of collective bargaining on the incidence of wage increases and

10.09.2020 Julkaisut Working Papers 82

Supranationalism, Sino-American Technology Separation, and Semiconductors: First Observations

Holmström HaraldSeppälä Timo

Global forces have shaped the world since the industrial and digital ages. A recent perspective on globalization acknowledges the

01.07.2020 Julkaisut Working Papers 81

Killers on the Road of Emerging Start-ups – Implications for Market Entry and Venture Capital Financing

Koski HeliKässi OttoBraesemann Fabian

This paper empirically studies the effect of acquisitions made by the large US-based technology companies on the entry dynamics

30.06.2020 Julkaisut Working Papers 80

Nowcasting Industrial Production Using Uncoventional Data Sources

Fornaro Paolo

In this work, we rely on unconventional data sources to nowcast the year-on-year growth rate of Finnish industrial production,

23.04.2020 Julkaisut Working Papers 79

Construction Value Chains and Their Productivity Growth

Kuusi TeroJunnonen Juha-MattiKulvik Martti

The construction industry has suffered from low growth in recent decades. Motivated by the economic importance of the industry,

23.04.2020 Julkaisut Working Papers 78

Digitalization and Platforms in Agriculture: Organizations, Power Asymmetry, and Collective Action Solutions

Kenney MartinSerhan HiamTrystram Gilles

Technologies such as digitally-equipped agricultural equipment, drones, image recognition, sensors, robots and artificial intelligence are being rapidly adopted throughout

25.02.2020 Julkaisut Working Papers 77

Short-term Impacts of the GDPR on Firm Performance

Koski HeliValmari Nelli

This paper uses extensive firm-level data on European and US companies from 2014–2018 to explore the short-term impacts of

06.02.2020 Julkaisut Working Papers 76

Artificial Intelligence Platforms – A New Research Agenda for Digital Platform Economy

Mucha TomaszSeppälä Timo

Three out of nine of S&P500 digital platform companies stand out as building own artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. There

30.12.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 75

Losing a Job and (Dis)incentives to Move

Maczulskij TerhiBöckerman Petri

We examine the economic determinants of interregional mobility. Using plant closures and mass lay-offs for identification, we show that

20.12.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 74

Alternative Demography-based Projection Approaches for Public Health and Long-term Care Expenditure

Lassila JukkaValkonen Tarmo

Ageing populations pose a major challenge for long-term sustainability of public finances. The respond has been a wave of

09.12.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 73

The Costs of Job Loss and Task Usage

Kauhanen AnttiRiukula Krista

This study examines the degree to which the effects of job loss depend on task usage and task distance

19.11.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 72

Data Markets in Making: The Role of Technology Giants

Koski HeliPantzar Mika

This paper focuses on the role of large technology companies’ entry and expansion to the data-intensive market areas via

30.10.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 71

Emerging Trade Battlefield with China: Export Competition and Firm’s Coping Strategies

Nilsson Hakkala KatariinaPan Yao

This paper analyzes how intensified Chinese export competition affects the exports and product ranges of firms from Finland. Using

30.10.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 70

Service Imports, Workforce Composition, and Firm Performance: Evidence from Finnish Microdata

Ariu AndreaNilsson Hakkala KatariinaJensen J. BradfordTamminen Saara

This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, workforce composition, and firm characteristics to examine changes

23.09.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 69

Management Practises in Finnish Manufacturing Establishments: Evidence from FMOP

Ohlsbom RoopeMaliranta Mika

Data collected by the recently conducted Finnish Management and Organizational Practices Survey (FMOP) by Statistics Finland is used to

20.08.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 68

Artificial Intelligence Applications & Venture Funding in Healthcare

Halminen OlliTenhunen HenniHeliste AnttiSeppälä Timo

Venture Capital (VC) funding raised by companies producing Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions is on the rise. In healthcare, VC

18.04.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 67

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, which

02.04.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 66

Top 3: Pension Systems in 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

13.03.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 65

Labor Market Returns to Vocational Secondary Education

Silliman MikkoVirtanen Hanna

We study labor-market returns to vocational versus general secondary education using a regression discontinuity design created by the centralized

13.03.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 64

Lost Boys: Access to Secondary Education and Crime

Huttunen KristiinaPekkarinen TuomasUusitalo RoopeVirtanen Hanna

We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by admission cut-offs

01.02.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 63

Immigrant Innovators and Firm Performance

Fornaro PaoloMaliranta MikaRouvinen Petri

We study immigrants’ effects on firm-level innovativeness. Managers, innovators, and other employees are considered as separate groups both in