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Adjustment to Regional Labour Market Shocks
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-05-22)
This paper analyses regional labour market adjustment in the Finnish provinces during 1976-2000. It investigates the inter-relations of employment, unemployment, labour force participation and migration to see how a change ...
Is Little Brother Nothing but Trouble?: Educational Attainment, Returns to Schooling and Sibling Structure
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-04-15)
Family effects on an individual's labor market success have been studied by economists and sociologists. The consensus is that background matters to educational and labor market performance, but it is not clear how and ...
Social Capital and Economic Growth Revisited
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-06-09)
Social capital facilitates cooperation in the society. High level of social capital promotes economic efficiency by lowering transaction costs. Trust towards strangers and low level of corruption are examples of high level ...
The Finnish Model of STI Policy: Experiences and Guidelines. KNOGG Thematic Network WP4 Country Report - Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-09-03)
This report reviews the Finnish science, technology and innovation (STI) policies. The structure and actors of national innovation system (NIS) are described shortly as well as the functioning of education system. The ...
Finland's First 10 Years in the European Union - Economic Consequences
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2006-01-13)
This paper summarizes the economic performance of Finland in 1995–2004 and compares the actual developments to the projections made prior to the EU membership. The paper also assesses the impacts of the structural changes ...
Liberalisation of Agricultural Trade - Global Implications and what it Means for the EU
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-05-19)
The liberalisation of agricultural trade is expected to become a key element of the agreement resulting from the WTO's Doha Round. The economic impacts of agricultural trade liberalisation are evaluated in this study using ...
Gerontocracy Revisited: Unilateral Transfer to the Young May Benefit the Middle-aged
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-05-22)
According to conventional wisdom, intergenerational transfers can survive, in the absence of altruism, only if the old are net recipients. I prove that this need not hold in an overlapping generations model with a fixed ...
Access Pricing and Competition in Telecommunications
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-11-08)
This study reviews the key economic features of the telecommunications industry and outlines two benchmark models that have been developed in previous literature for introducing competition into local telecommunications. ...
Determinants of Expenditure Variation in Finnish Municipalities
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-03-19)
This paper focuses on two separate issues. First, the expenditure response of Finnish municipalities to price and income changes during the matching grants period is examined. Second, the existence of the so-called "flypaper ...
Technical Change, Efficiency, Firm Size and Age in an RD Intensive Sector
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2006-05-04)
The relationship between firm size and age relative to technical change and efficiency is examined in a highly innovative and dynamic sector, the Finnish ICT equipment manufacturing industry. A stochastic frontier model ...