Pekka Ilmakunnas

Professor

Teaching

Makrotaloustiede (Intermediate Macroeconomics), Spring 2010
Applied Econometrics, Spring 2010

Research interests

Applied econometric reseach on industrial and labor economics
Current research topics include job and worker turnover, economics of aging, job satisfaction, productivity, enterprise demography, entrepreneurship

Research in progress

• P. Ilmakunnas & S. Ilmakunnas: "Diversity at the workplace: Whom does it benefit?"
• P. Ilmakunnas & S. Ilmakunnas: "Age segregation and hiring of older employees"
• P. Ilmakunnas & S. Ilmakunnas: "Hiring older employees: Do incentives of early retirement channels matter?" 
• P. Ilmakunnas & M. Maliranta: "Aging, labor flows, and firm performance"
• P. Ilmakunnas, M. Maliranta & H. Pesola: "Spillovers from multinationals to domestic firms through worker mobility"
• P. Ilmakunnas: "Asymmetries in employment and hours adjustment of firms: Theory and evidence"
• A. Hyytinen & P. Ilmakunnas & O. Toivanen: "The returns to entrepreneurship puzzle"
• T. Miyakoshi & P. Ilmakunnas: "What decreases TFP? The aging labor and ICT imbalance"
• P. Böckerman, P. Ilmakunnas & E. Johansson: "Creative destruction and employee well-being"
• P. Böckerman & P. Ilmakunnas: "The job satisfaction-productivity nexus: A study using matched survey and register data"

Selected recent publications (since 2005)

(see CV for a full list)

Articles in English

• P. Ilmakunnas, V. Skirbekk., J. van Ours, , M. Weiss: "Ageing and productivity", P. Garibaldi, J.O. Martins, and J. van Ours, eds., Health, Longevity, and Productivity, Oxford University Press, forthcoming
• P. Ilmakunnas & S. Ilmakunnas: "Work force ageing and expanding service sector - a double burden on productivity?", The Service Industries Journal, forthcoming
• P. Ilmakunnas & S. Nurmi: "Dynamics of export market entry and exit", Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2010, Vol. 112, 101-126
• P. Böckerman & P. Ilmakunnas: "Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction, Quit Intentions, and Actual Separations: Putting the Pieces Together", Industrial Relations,  2009, Vol. 48, 73-96 
• P. Böckerman & P. Ilmakunnas: "Unemployment and self-assessed health: Evidence from panel data", Health Economics, 2009, Vol. 18, 161-179
• P. Böckerman & P. Ilmakunnas: "Interaction of job disamenities, job satisfaction, and sickness absences: Evidence from a representative sample employees", Social Science and Medicine, 2008, Vol. 67, 520-528
• P. Ilmakunnas: "Lower bounds of concentration in a small open economy", Review of Industrial Organization, 2008, Vol. 32, 19-33
• P. Ilmakunnas & V. Kanniainen, "Entrepreneurship, economic risks, and risk insurance in the welfare state: Results with OECD data 1978-93", M. Henrekson and R. Douhan, eds., The Political Economy of Entrepreneurship, Vol. 2, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008, 537-560 (originally published in German Economic Review, 2001)
• P. Ilmakunnas & S. Ilmakunnas: "Gradual retirement and lengthening of working life", P. Kemp, K. van den Bosch and L. Smith, eds., Social Protection in an Ageing World, Antwerpen: Intersentia, International Studies on Social security, Vol. 13, 2008, 153-172
• A. Hyytinen & P. Ilmakunnas: "What distinguishes a serial entrepreneur?", Industrial and Corporate Change, 2007, Vol. 16, 793-821
• A. Hyytinen & P. Ilmakunnas: "Entrepreneurial aspirations: Another form of job search?", Small Business Economics, 2007, Vol. 29, 63-80
• P. Böckerman & P. Ilmakunnas: "Do job disamenities raise wages or ruin job satisfaction?", International Journal of Manpower, 2006, Vol. 27, 290-302
• P. Böckerman & P. Ilmakunnas: "Elusive effects of unemployment on happiness", Social Indicators Research, Vol. 79, 2006, 159-169
• P. Ilmakunnas & M. Maliranta: "Technology, worker characteristics, and wage-productivity gaps", Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2005, Vol. 67, 623-645
• P. Ilmakunnas & M. Maliranta: "Worker inflow, outflow, and churning", Applied Economics, 2005, Vol. 37, 1115-1133

Articles in Finnish