Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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  • Why Are There So Few Female Inventors?

    Atte Pudas

    Only a small fraction of inventors are women. Using Finnish administrative data linked to patent records, I show that educational and occupational sorting explain roughly 54% of the gender gap in …

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  • Furloughs, Employment, and Worker Reallocation in Normal Times

    Niku Määttänen, Eero Mäkynen, Oskari Vähämaa

    Are furlough schemes useful under normal business cycle conditions? We address this question using administrative data from Finland, where such a scheme has long existed, and a model of firm dynamics …

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  • Planning for Family Succession

    Ciprian Domnisoru and Robert A. Miller

    Sons succeed their exiting CEO parents more often than daughters. How do entrepreneurial families reach this gender imbalance, and how does it affect the prospects of their firms and their offspring? …

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