This report studies differences in the wage structure between part-time and full-time employees in the service sector in 1990-2006. Using wage data from the registers of the Confederation of Finnish Industries, the report describes and compares wage distributions and their changes in the service...

We make several findings related to the dynamics of labour markets and industry life cycles in our analysis, which makes use of longitudinal employer-employee data that cover the whole working age population in Finland. Firstly, we find that across industry transitions of the employed are...

This study analyzes trends in specialization of the Finnish industry since the 1980s. Low technology industries, such as pulp and paper, have had traditionally a large proportion of the Finnish industrial output. During the recent decades their share of output has decreased significantly and...

Teollisuuden ja Työnantajain Keskusliiton vuosittain teettämän työvoimatiedustelun aineistosta voidaan muodostaa kaksi tarkasti määriteltyä rekrytointiongelmien mittaria, joita on mahdollista soveltaa joko toimiala- tai toimipaikkakohtaisesti. Näiden kahden mittarin yhteyksiä...

We study whether older workers are costly to firms. Our estimation equations are derived from a variant of the decomposition methods frequently used for measuring micro-level sources of industry productivity growth. By using comprehensive linked employeremployee data from the Finnish business...

Suomen arvonlisäys työtuntia kohden oli EU15, Yhdysvaltoja, Saksaa ja Ruotsia huonompi vuonna 1997. Tehdasteollisuudessa ja sen viidellä alatoimialalla sekä rakentamisessa ja tukkukaupassa Suomen työn tuottavuuden taso oli korkeampi kuin vertailumaissa. Vuonna 2004 Suomen työn tuottavuus...

We study career and wage dynamics within and between firms using a large linked employer-employee panel dataset spanning 26 years. We construct six-level hierarchies for more than 5,000 firms. We replicate most of the analyses from Baker, Gibbs and Holmström (Quarterly Journal of Economics,...