Working Papers

Losing a Job and (Dis)incentives to Move

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

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

05.11.2018 Julkaisut Working Papers 62

Nowcasting the Unemployment Rate in the EU with Seasonal BVAR and Google Search Data

Anttonen Jetro

In this paper a Bayesian vector autoregressive model for nowcasting the seasonally non-adjusted unemployment rate in EU-countries is developed.

26.10.2018 Julkaisut Working Papers 61

How Do Competition Policy and Data Brokers Shape Product Market Competition?

Koski Heli

This paper empirically analyzes how a data broker affects competition in oligopolistic product markets. It examines a unique case

24.08.2018 Julkaisut Working Papers 60

Missing Growth in Finland

Anttila Juho

This study investigates the extent of ’missing growth’ in Finland due to upward bias in the cost-of-living measurement. This

25.05.2018 Julkaisut Working Papers 59

Investor Attention and Technology Salience: Does Personal Data Related Innovation Boost Firm Value?

Koski HeliLuukkonen Juha

This paper empirically analyzes how markets value personal data related innovation in four prominent domains, in which firms’ potential

05.03.2018 Julkaisut Working Papers 58

Ctrip: China’s Online Travel Platform – Local Giant or Global Competitor?

Shao TianyiKenney Martin

In a large number of sectors, Chinese internet platform firms have grown to enormous size leveraging a rapidly growing,

21.02.2018 Julkaisut Working Papers 57

Aggregate Risks, Intergenerational Risk-Sharing and Fiscal Sustainability in the Finnish Earnings-Related Pension System

Lassila Jukka

We study how aggregate demographic and economic risks affect the finances of the Finnish earnings-related pension system and the

14.02.2018 Julkaisut Working Papers 56

The Effects of an Education-Leave Program on Educational Attainment and Labor-Market Outcomes

Kauhanen Antti

I study the effect of an education leave subsidy for the employed on labor-market outcomes and educational attainment using

01.02.2018 Julkaisut Working Papers 55

Parental Job Loss and Application Decisions in Finnish Post-Secondary Education

Laukkonen Marja-Lisa

In Finland, there are no tuition or application fees for post-secondary education. However, the application and admission processes by

02.10.2017 Julkaisut Working Papers 54

ETLA Macro Model for Forecasting and Policy Simulations

Lehmus Markku

This paper presents a review of a quarterly macroeconomic model built for forecasting and policy simulation purposes at the

29.09.2017 Julkaisut Working Papers 53

The (Unfulfilled) Potential of Data Marketplaces

Koutroumpis PantelisLeiponen AijaThomas Llewellyn D W

Although industrial datasets are abundant and growing daily, they are not being shared or traded openly and transparently on

23.08.2017 Julkaisut Working Papers 52

Invention Machines: How Control Instruments and Information Technologies Drove Global Technologigal Progress over a Century of Invention