Publikationer

22.8.2008 Publikationer

Is Service Innovation Different?

Leiponen Aija

This exploratory empirical study compares the determinants of innovation in manufacturing and services through descriptive and regression analyses of

20.8.2008 Publikationer

Education – A Job Market Signal?

Leino Topias

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on job market signalling and on education as a job market

20.8.2008 Publikationer

Public R&D Subsidies and Employment Growth – Microeconomic Evidence from Finnish Firms

Koski Heli

This study empirically explores whether the public financial support for entrepreneurial R&D affects employment growth at the firm level.

13.8.2008 Publikationer

Interaction between Housing Prices and Household Borrowing in Finland

Oikarinen Elias

Housing prices and household borrowing are expected to be tightly connected to each other. Better availability of credit eases

7.7.2008 Publikationer

Public R&D Funding and Entrepreneurial Innovation

Koski Heli

This study does not find any significant direct relationship between the public R&D funding and the firms` innovation output.

7.7.2008 Publikationer

Does Open Innovation Foster Productivity? Evidence from Open Source Software(OSS) Firms

Harison EladKoski Heli

The primary findings of our study suggest that software firms that adopt the OSS-based business model are notably less

30.6.2008 Publikationer

High Growth Firms and Job Creation in Finland

Deschryvere Matthias

The goal of this descriptive paper is to identify which firms add the most employment in Finland. The analysis

24.6.2008 Böcker Publikationer

Nanotechnology and industrial renewal in Finland – A synthesis of key findings

Palmberg ChristopherNikulainen Tuomo

Nanotechnology enables the manipulation and control of matter and processes at very small scales where materials, devices and systems

13.6.2008 Publikationer

Säänneltyä joustavuuutta: hankemekanismit kansainvälisessä ilmastopolitiikassa

Marjosola Heikki

Kyoto Protocols Project-Based Mechanisms (Clean Development Mechanism, CDM and Joint Implementation, JI) add flexibility to international climate cooperation and

10.6.2008 Publikationer

Ikääntyneiden varallisuus ja sen muuttaminen kulutukseksi

Määttänen NikuValkonen Tarmo

We study the extent to which retired households in Finland could supplement their mandatory pension benefits by releasing their

10.6.2008 Publikationer

IT Outsourcing in Finnish Business

Maliranta MikaRouvinen PetriAiraksinen Aarno

This paper reviews the characteristics and magnitude of information technology (IT) outsourcing as well as studies its labor productivity

5.6.2008 Publikationer

Large Corporations in the Finnish Economy

Pajarinen MikaYlä-Anttila Pekka

This paper is a part of larger research project on the role of the 30 largest firms in the

26.5.2008 Publikationer

Suomen työeläkejärjestelmän stokastinen kestävyysanalyysi

Lassila JukkaValkonen Tarmo

This study analyzes the sustainability implications of demographic and investment risks in the Finnish private sector pension system (TyEL).

14.5.2008 Böcker Publikationer

Sukupuolten palkkaerot Suomessa – Yksityisen sektorin miesten ja naisten palkkojen ja palkkaerojen tarkastelu

Asplund Rita

GENDER WAGE DIFFERENCES IN FINLAND THE STRUCTURE AND TREND OF PRIVATE-SECTOR MALE AND FEMALE WAGES AND WAGE GAPS

9.5.2008 Publikationer

Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: An Overview

Valentini Fransesca

Unemployment insurance and job protection regulations provide assistance to those who face unemployment. Unemployment insurance seems more desirable, since

23.4.2008 Publikationer

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

23.4.2008 Publikationer

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

22.4.2008 Publikationer

Agglomeration and Specialisation Patterns of Finnish Biotechnology. On the Search for an Economic Rationale of a Dispersed Industry Structure

Tahvanainen Antti-JussiHermans Raine

This study sets out to inspect empirically whether existing theory in Geographical Economics (GE) is able to provide a

7.4.2008 Publikationer

The Incidence and Determinants of Employee Involvement – Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Sector

Jones Derek C.Kalmi PanuKato TakaoMäkinen Mikko

In this paper, we present preliminary empirical findings on the incidence of employee involvement practices in the Finnish manufacturing

2.4.2008 Publikationer

Applying the Swedish Pension Brake

Lassila JukkaValkonen Tarmo

In non-financial defined contribution (NDC) pension systems the contribution rate is kept at a constant level. A key element

2.4.2008 Publikationer

Biotekniikan ennakointi

Hermans RainenKulvik MarttiTahvanainen Antti

Biotekniikan ennakointi -projektin tavoitteena on ollut selvittää bioteknologian muuntumista kaupalliseksi tuotannoksi sekä esittää sen pohjalta suosituksia kehittää koulutusjärjestelmää kaupallisen

28.3.2008 Publikationer

The Labour Market Consequences of Self-employment Spells: European Evidence

Hyytinen AriRouvinen Petri

We examine how those re-entering paid-employment after a brief self-employment spell fare upon return using data from the European

26.3.2008 Publikationer

Regulation of Energy Prices in Russia

Alho Kari E.O.

Russia prices its energy commodities domestically much lower than the prices prevailing in the international market. Using a general

14.3.2008 Publikationer

Does Mass-media Fuel, and Easy Credit Facilitate, Impulse Buys?

Huovinen PasiRouvinen Petri

This paper studies whether exposure to mass media and liking advertising are associated with an increased impulse buy tendency,