Janne Huovari

• Pellervo Economic Research, Helsinki, Finland

Multi-local living and spatial interaction are expected to change the picture of regional development, as they emphasize the seasonal and interrelated use of areas. The article focusses on questions: What kind of spatial formation is the regional structure in Finland divided, and how common are these spatial formations in the regional structure? Th...

Työperäisen monipaikkaisuuden on huomattu yleistyvän samalla, kun työn tekemisen muodot ja työsuhteet moninaistuvat, etätyöskentely lisääntyy ja työn aika- ja paikkasidonnaisuus heikkenevät. Yksinkertaisimmillaan monipaikkaisuus tarkoittaa sitä, että henkilöllä on useampi kuin yksi asuin- tai oleskelupaikka. Tässä tutkimuksessa keskitytään työperäi...

Tutkimuksessa kartoitettiin alueellisen liikkuvuuden ja monipaikkaisuuden nykytilaa ja laajuutta eri näkökulmista ja erilaisten aluetyyppien kautta. Erityisesti tarkasteltiin työhön liittyvää sekä yksilöiden, työpaikkojen ja alueiden ominaisuuksia, jotka vaikuttavat liikkuvuuteen ja liikkuvuusmuotovalintoihin. Lisäksi tutkimuksessa selvitettiin jo...

The increasing availability of open statistical data resources is providing novel opportunities for research and citizen science. Efficient algorithmic tools are needed to realize the full potential of the new information resources. We introduce the eurostat R package that provides a collection of custom tools for the Eurostat open data service, in...

The aim of this report is to assess the operational environment and regulations related to bioeconomy and to examine the possibilities to develop them further. Regulatory bottlenecks are only one of the obstacles which hinder reaching the targets set for bioeconomy. To reach the goals, it is also important to remove bottlenecks related to attitudes...

This paper examines the effect of R&D subsidies on labour productivity. We use firm-level data on Finnish SMEs from 2000 to 2012 and apply a combined matching and difference-in-differences method to control for selection bias. We find no significant positive effect on labour productivity over the five-year period after a subsidy is granted. However...

Industries have varying abilities to benefit from externalities associated with geographical concentration, and are also likely to suffer in different degrees from crowding costs. This makes industries differ in their concentration process. We hypothesize that firms with low education levels (low tech) tend to be concentrated in areas with low urba...

The paper asks whether R&D's productivity impacts are conditional on the gap of a plant's productivity from the industry's technological frontier. The results show that a plant's own R&D and a parent firm's R&D have a positive productivity impact. The impact of a plant's own R&D decreases as the gap from the industry's technological frontier grows....

Finnish value added per hour in 1997 was lower than it was in EU15, the US, Germany and Sweden. In manufacturing and in five of its sub-industries, as well as in construction and wholesale the Finnish level of labour productivity was higher than in the aforementioned countries. Finnish labour productivity was on par with EU15 by 2004. In four manuf...

Competitiveness receives a lot of attention. Commentators are often concerned about the loss of competitiveness, and policy actions are motivated by a desire to improve competitiveness. What is typically being referred to is the competitiveness of firms, nations or other geographic areas. The competitiveness of firms differs from that of geographic...

The aim of this study is to analyse competitiveness of NUTS4-level regions of Finland (85) and to develop a regional competitiveness index. Partly, we use the same framework as earlier competitive studies on national level and focus on factors of production, emphasis on human capital and level of technology, innovation activity and R&D. But also, d...