Petri Bockerman

Labour Institute for Economic Research

FIN-00530 Helsinki

Finland

http://www.petribockerman.fi/

University of Turku - Turku School of Economics

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TURKU, FI-20500

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1.

Enemy of Labour? Analysing the Employment Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions

Labour Institute for Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 221
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 10 Sep 2006
Petri Bockerman and Eero Lehto
Labour Institute for Economic Research and Labour Institute for Economic Research
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mergers and acquisitions, M&As, takeovers, employment, workforce

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The Job Satisfaction-Productivity Nexus: A Study Using Matched Survey and Register Data

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Jun 2010
Petri Bockerman and Pekka Ilmakunnas
Labour Institute for Economic Research and Aalto University School of Business
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job satisfaction, employee well-being, productivity, performance

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Elusive Effects of Unemployment on Happiness

HECER Discussion Paper No. 47
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Apr 2005
Petri Bockerman and Pekka Ilmakunnas
Labour Institute for Economic Research and Aalto University School of Business
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happiness, unhappiness, life satisfaction, unemployment

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Unemployment and Self-Assessed Health: Evidence from Panel Data

HECER Discussion Paper No. 148
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 13 Feb 2007
Petri Bockerman and Pekka Ilmakunnas
Labour Institute for Economic Research and Aalto University School of Business
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health, subjective well-being, unemployment

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Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction, Quit Intentions, and Actual Separations: Putting the Pieces Together

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Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction, Quit Intentions, and Actual Separations: Putting the Pieces Together

HECER Discussion Paper No. 166
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 May 2007
Petri Bockerman and Pekka Ilmakunnas
Labour Institute for Economic Research and Aalto University School of Business
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working conditions, job satisfaction, on-the-job search, job separation, quits

Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction, Quit Intentions, and Actual Separations: Putting the Pieces Together

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Vol. 48, Issue 1, pp. 73-96, January 2009
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 10 Dec 2008
Petri Bockerman and Pekka Ilmakunnas
Labour Institute for Economic Research and Aalto University School of Business
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Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction, and On-the-Job Search: Is There a Nexus?

HECER Discussion Paper No. 36
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Jan 2005
Petri Bockerman and Pekka Ilmakunnas
Labour Institute for Economic Research and Aalto University School of Business
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Working conditions, job satisfaction, on-the-job search, quit intentions

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Do Job Disamenities Raise Wages or Ruin Job Satisfaction?

HECER Discussion Paper No. 20
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 05 Jan 2005
Petri Bockerman and Pekka Ilmakunnas
Labour Institute for Economic Research and Aalto University School of Business
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Compensating wage differentials, job satisfaction, working conditions

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Born Entrepreneur? Adolescents' Personality Characteristics and Self-Employment in Adulthood

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9805
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Mar 2016
Jutta Viinikainen, Guido Heineck, Petri Bockerman, Mirka Hintsanen and Olli Raitakari
University of Jyväskylä, University of Bamberg, Labour Institute for Economic Research, University of Helsinki and University of Turku
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Type A behavior, personality, self-employment, entrepreneurship, intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship

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Interaction of Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction, and Sickness Absences: Evidence from a Representative Sample of Finnish Workers

Labour Institute for Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 224
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Nov 2006
Petri Bockerman and Pekka Ilmakunnas
Labour Institute for Economic Research and Aalto University School of Business
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working conditions, job satisfaction, sickness absences

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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Apr 2012
Petri Bockerman and Mika Maliranta
Labour Institute for Economic Research and ETLA, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
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globalization, outsourcing, offshoring, working conditions, job satisfaction, subjective well-being

Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7399
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 18 May 2013
Petri Bockerman and Mika Maliranta
Labour Institute for Economic Research and ETLA, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
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globalization, outsourcing, offshoring, downsizing, working conditions, subjective well-being, job satisfaction

Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well‐Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Vol. 52, Issue 4, pp. 878-914, 2013
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 10 Sep 2013
Petri Bockerman and Mika Maliranta
Labour Institute for Economic Research and ETLA, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
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Job Security and Employee Well-Being: Evidence from Matched Survey and Register Data

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 10 Apr 2010
Petri Bockerman, Pekka Ilmakunnas and Edvard Johansson
Labour Institute for Economic Research, Aalto University School of Business and Dept. of Management and Organisation
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Minimum Wages and Youth Employment: Evidence from the Finnish Retail Trade Sector

Labor Institute for Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 238
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Dec 2007
Petri Bockerman and Roope Uusitalo
Labour Institute for Economic Research and Uppsala University - Department of Economics
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Minimum wages, employment, labour demand

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Union Membership and the Erosion of the Ghent System: Lessons from Finland

Labour Institute for Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 213
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 12 Oct 2005
Roope Uusitalo and Petri Bockerman
Uppsala University - Department of Economics and Labour Institute for Economic Research
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Trade unions, Ghent system, union density

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Globalization, Creative Destruction, and Labor Share Change: Evidence on the Determinants and Mechanisms from Longitudinal Plant-Level Data

ETLA Working Paper No. 1178
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 02 Feb 2009
Petri Bockerman and Mika Maliranta
Labour Institute for Economic Research and ETLA, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
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Globalization, International Trade, Foreign ownership, micro-level restructuring, labor share

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A Kink that Makes You Sick: The Incentive Effect of Sick Pay on Absence

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8205
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 31 May 2014
Petri Bockerman, Ohto Kanninen and Ilpo Suoniemi
Labour Institute for Economic Research, Labour Institute for Economic Research and Labour Institute for Economic Research
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sick pay, labor supply, sickness absence, paid sick leave, regression kink design

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Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages: Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9632
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Jan 2016
Petri Bockerman, Per Skedinger and Roope Uusitalo
Labour Institute for Economic Research, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and Uppsala University - Department of Economics
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multi-country linked employer-employee data, seniority rules, employment protection legislation

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Creative Destruction and Employee Well-Being

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 28 May 2009
Petri Bockerman, Pekka Ilmakunnas and Edvard Johansson
Labour Institute for Economic Research, Aalto University School of Business and Dept. of Management and Organisation
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job flows, worker flows, job satisfaction, perceived security, job instability

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Labour Market Effects of the Polytechnic Education Reform: The Finnish Experience

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4013
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 Mar 2009
Petri Bockerman, Ulla Hamalainen and Roope Uusitalo
Labour Institute for Economic Research, Social Insurance Institution of Finland and Uppsala University - Department of Economics
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I21, I23

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Are Jobs More Polarized in ICT Firms?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9851
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Apr 2016
Petri Bockerman, Seppo Laaksonen and Jari Vainiomäki
Labour Institute for Economic Research, University of Helsinki and Tampere University
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skill-biased technological change, job polarization, routinization

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Erosion of the Ghent System and Union Membership Decline: Lessons from Finland

British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 283-303, June 2006
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 25 May 2006
Petri Bockerman and Roope Uusitalo
Labour Institute for Economic Research and Uppsala University - Department of Economics
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Too Much, Too Soon? Polytechnic Graduate Placement in Finnish Manufacturing

Labour Institute for Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 216
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Feb 2006
Petri Bockerman
Labour Institute for Economic Research
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Education, polytechnic, placement

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Determination of Average Working Time in Finland

Labour, Vol. 16, pp. 557-568, 2002
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 21 Feb 2003
Petri Bockerman and Jaakko Kiander
Labour Institute for Economic Research and Government of the Republic of Finland - VATT Institute for Economic Research
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Top Income Shares and Mortality: Evidence from Advanced Countries

Labour Institute for Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 257
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 12 Jan 2010
Petri Bockerman
Labour Institute for Economic Research
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income inequality, top income shares, mortality

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Do Good Working Conditions Make You Work Longer? Evidence on Retirement Decisions Using Linked Survey and Register Data

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10964
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 31 Aug 2017
Petri Bockerman and Pekka Ilmakunnas
Labour Institute for Economic Research and Aalto University School of Business
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working conditions, job satisfaction, retirement, new management practices

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The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes: An Application of Genetic Instrumental Variables

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The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes: An Application of Genetic Instrumental Variables

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9907
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 May 2016
Petri Bockerman, John Cawley, Jutta Viinikainen, Terho Lehtimäki, Suvi Rovio, Ilkka Seppälä, Jaakko Pehkonen and Olli Raitakari
Labour Institute for Economic Research, Cornell University - College of Human Ecology, Department of Policy Analysis & Management (PAM), University of Jyväskylä, University of Turku, University of Turku, Tampere University, University of Jyväskylä - School of Business and Economics and University of Turku
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obesity, BMI, earnings, employment, genetic instruments

The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes: An Application of Genetic Instrumental Variables

NBER Working Paper No. w22200
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 May 2016
Petri Bockerman, John Cawley, Jutta Viinikainen, Terho Lehtimäki, Suvi Rovio, Ilkka Seppälä, Jaakko Pehkonen and Olli Rautakari
Labour Institute for Economic Research, Cornell University - College of Human Ecology, Department of Policy Analysis & Management (PAM), University of Jyväskylä, University of Turku, University of Turku, Tampere University, University of Jyväskylä - School of Business and Economics and University of Turku
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Using Twins to Resolve the Twin Problem of Having a Bad Job and a Low Wage

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8557
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Oct 2014
Petri Bockerman, Pekka Ilmakunnas and Jari Vainiomäki
Labour Institute for Economic Research, Aalto University School of Business and Tampere University
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compensating differentials, earnings, unobserved ability, productivity

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Does High Involvement Management Improve Worker Wellbeing?

NIESR Discussion Paper No. 380
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 30 Jul 2013
Petri Bockerman, Alex Bryson and Pekka Ilmakunnas
Labour Institute for Economic Research, UCL and Aalto University School of Business
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health, subjective wellbeing, sickness absence, job satisfaction, high involvement management, high performance work system

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Does High Involvement Management Lead to Higher Pay?

NIESR Discussion Paper No. 376
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Feb 2011
Petri Bockerman, Alex Bryson and Pekka Ilmakunnas
Labour Institute for Economic Research, UCL and Aalto University School of Business
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wages, high involvement management, high performance work system, incentive pay, training, team working, information sharing, propensity score matching

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Regional Labor Market Dynamics, Housing, and Migration

Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 543-568, August 2004
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 30 Sep 2004
Kari Hämäläinen and Petri Bockerman
Government of the Republic of Finland - VATT Institute for Economic Research and Labour Institute for Economic Research
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Biomarkers and Long-Term Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8029
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 15 Mar 2014
Petri Bockerman, Alex Bryson, Jutta Viinikainen, Christian Hakulinen, Laura Pulkki-Raback and Olli Raitakari
Labour Institute for Economic Research, UCL, University of Jyväskylä, University of Helsinki, University of Helsinki and University of Turku
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biomarkers, creatine, creatinine, labour market, earnings, employment

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Sources of Job and Worker Flows: Evidence from a Panel of Regions

Labour, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 105-129, March 2004
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Apr 2004
Petri Bockerman, Kari Hämäläinen and Mika Maliranta
Labour Institute for Economic Research, Government of the Republic of Finland - VATT Institute for Economic Research and ETLA, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
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Back to School? Labor-Market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9079
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 01 Jun 2015
Petri Bockerman, Mika Haapanen and Christopher Jepsen
Labour Institute for Economic Research, University of Jyväskylä - School of Business and Economics and University College Dublin (UCD) - School of Economics
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vocational education, postsecondary education, labor-market returns

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Does Higher Education Enhance Migration?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7754
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 04 Dec 2013
Mika Haapanen and Petri Bockerman
University of Jyväskylä - School of Business and Economics and Labour Institute for Economic Research
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migration, higher education, vocational education, polytechnic education, school reform

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Does Job Support Make Workers Happy?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10486
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 22 Jan 2017
Petri Bockerman, Alex Bryson, Antti Kauhanen and Mari Kangasniemi
Labour Institute for Economic Research, UCL, ETLA, Research Institute of the Finnish Economy and University of Sussex
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worker wellbeing, job control, job demands, job support, job design, supervisors, job satisfaction, stress, HRM, unemployment, scarring effects

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Stature and Life-Time Labor Market Outcomes: Accounting for Unobserved Differences

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7424
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 08 Jun 2013
Petri Bockerman and Jari Vainiomäki
Labour Institute for Economic Research and Tampere University
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height, weight, BMI, height premium, earnings, employment

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Early Health, Risk Aversion and Stock Market Participation

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12341
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 21 May 2019
Petri Bockerman, Andrew Conlin and Rauli Svento
Labour Institute for Economic Research, University of Oulu and University of Oulu - Department of Economics
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health status, birth weight, stock market participation

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Job Displacement, Inter-Regional Mobility and Long-Term Earnings

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11635
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Jul 2018
Terhi Maczulskij, Petri Bockerman and Tuomas Kosonen
University of Jyväskylä - School of Business and Economics, Labour Institute for Economic Research and University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies
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unemployment, job displacement, migration, earnings, employment

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Harsh Times: Do Stressors Lead to Labor Market Losses?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10773
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 05 Jun 2017
Terhi Maczulskij and Petri Bockerman
University of Jyväskylä - School of Business and Economics and Labour Institute for Economic Research
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stressors, stressful life events, employment, earnings, co-twin control, twins

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Digital Waste? Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology

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Digital Waste? Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology

VATT Institute for Economic Research Working Papers 117
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 06 May 2019
Petri Bockerman, Mika Kortelainen, Liisa Laine, Mikko Nurminen and Tanja Saxell
Labour Institute for Economic Research, Government of the Republic of Finland - VATT Institute for Economic Research, University of Pennsylvania - Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Turku School of Economics and VATT
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health information technology, electronic prescribing, repeat prescriptions, inefficiency, medication overuse

Digital Waste? Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12275
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 21 May 2019
Petri Bockerman, Mika Kortelainen, Liisa Laine, Mikko Nurminen and Tanja Saxell
Labour Institute for Economic Research, Government of the Republic of Finland - VATT Institute for Economic Research, University of Pennsylvania - Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Turku School of Economics and VATT
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health information technology, electronic prescribing, repeat prescriptions, inefficiency, medication overuse

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Domain-Specific Risk and Public Policy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11539
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 30 May 2018
Ohto Kanninen, Petri Bockerman and Ilpo Suoniemi
Labour Institute for Economic Research, Labour Institute for Economic Research and Labour Institute for Economic Research
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risk, risk aversion, state-dependence, social insurance, sickness absence

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Labor-Market Returns to Higher Vocational Schooling

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11734
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 28 Aug 2018
Petri Bockerman, Mika Haapanen and Christopher Jepsen
Labour Institute for Economic Research, University of Jyväskylä - School of Business and Economics and University College Dublin (UCD) - School of Economics
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vocational education, master's degrees, labor-market returns

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The Micro-Level Dynamics of Regional Productivity Growth: The Source of Divergence in Finland

Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 165-182, 2007
Posted: 06 Feb 2007
Petri Bockerman and Mika Maliranta
Labour Institute for Economic Research and ETLA, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy

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Productivity, Efficiency, Micro-level restructuring, Convergence, Divergence