This paper considers the education of the labour force based on an analysis of trends in and the relationships between job polarization and skills mismatch. Both job polarization and skills mismatch have become topics of increasing interest, but relationships between the two have been relatively...

Euroopan maat eroavat työmarkkinakäytäntöjensä suhteen. Muutokset ovat olleet huomattavia 1980-luvun alusta lähtien. Iso-Britanniassa työntekijöiden järjestäytymisaste on laskenut merkittävästi ja yrityksillä on itsenäinen asema palkanasetannassa. Saksassa liittotason...

This paper explores the problems and processes that led to the birth of consumer bankruptcy in continental Europe, a process that began in Denmark in January 1972 and culminated with the adoption of the Danish consumer debt adjustment act, Gældssaneringslov, on May 9, 1984. While this law is...

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the...