This report reviews economic literature on collective bargaining systems. The studies studying the association of collective bargaining systems and employment, productivity ja wages can not establish causality and the literature is quite thin. The existing results show that coordinated systems...

Perhevapaiden vaikutuksesta miesten ja naisten välisiin palkkaeroihin tiedetään hyvin vähän. Tässä katsauksessa pureudutaan empiiriseen kirjallisuuteen koskien perhevapaiden vaikutusta naisten ura- ja palkkakehitykseen. Suomalaisen empiirisen tutkimustiedon puuttuessa, tässä...

Greek Abstract: Το άρθρο επιχειρεί μια συνοπτική και συνθετική ανασκόπηση των σημαντικότερων θεσμικών και πολιτισμικών παραμέτρων που, σύμφωνα με την ελληνική και...

Greek Abstract: Το άρθρο επιχειρεί μια συνοπτική αποτύπωση και αξιολογική αποτίμηση των σημαντικότερων θεσμικών εξελίξεων στο πεδίο της νομοθετικής προστασίας της...

This report reviews economic literature on collective bargaining systems. The studies studying the association of collective bargaining systems and employment, productivity ja wages can not establish causality and the literature is quite thin. The existing results show that coordinated systems...

This report is a synthesis of the previous literature analyzing the role of different types of companies on economic growth and employment, and an overlook on the impacts of different policy measures on companies. The role of large companies in the economy is still significant, although...

Job flows are typically defined on the basis of the employment changes at the plant level. When calculated in this way, the job creation rate was 22.4% and destruction rate 23.8% in the Finnish business sector in the four-year period 2000-2004. However, when the different occupations (using...

Analyses in this paper do not support the idea that job and worker flows have become more intensive and have deteriorated working conditions in the Finnish business sector. The magnitude of flow has in fact been rather stable since 1997. However, job flows are at a quite high level, as some 10%...