performances of private, public and mixed enterprises in Finland is compared through the use of factor analysis method. The …

and Finland for about 20 years. The paper first reviews the literature and summarises methodological traditions in SP …

The purpose of this research is to study empirically the dynamics of obesity in Finland and provide empirical evidence … of temporal causality between obesity, health expenditure, unemployment, urbanization, alcohol consumption and calorie …

choice, but only for those who can afford to pay; Sweden, with taxpayer-funded free choice for everyone; and Finland, which …

in Finland. Our conclusion is that inverse infrastructures have a potential to contribute to local infrastructure …

covering the period from 1991 to 2010. We find a negative effect of the unemployment rate on the divorce rate, pointing to a … characteristics that can vary by country, and/or over time. Results indicate that a one-percentage-point increase in the unemployment … possible non-parametric pattern, confirms a clearly negative relationship between unemployment and divorce in European …

Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can …, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt backward technology, at the cost of reduced economic growth …. Alternatively, unemployment diminishes because productivity grows by employing workers who prefer to become skilled, and thus not to …

unemployment rate are mixed. This study analyzes the relationship between employment protection legislation measured by the OECD … Employment Protection Index and the unemployment rate between 2001 and 2008. After controlling country fixed effects, I find that … more stringent employment protection legislation may not be a significant factor for higher a unemployment rate. The …