Employment fosters equity and economic inclusiveness because those out of work face the highest risk of poverty, and it … lower hurdles to employment, which are high for the low-skilled. Policies to speed up tertiary graduation, improve work … incentives and activation of the unemployed and postpone labour market exit are necessary to bring the employment rate closer to …

Macro-simulations benchmarking employment in Finland to the Nordic average show that closing the large gaps in labour … participation vis-à-vis the other Nordics across genders and age groups would boost employment significantly. Regressions on micro … explain some of the observed differences in labour market outcomes across age and gender. Low employment in the oldest Finnish …