This literature review starts with a general discussion of young people and their various activities with special emphasis on youth unemployment and the outcome of alternative ways of measuring the prevalence of unemployment among young people. Thereafter the focus turns to measures targeted at...

We study the effects of compulsory military service in Finland on the conscripts' future labour market behaviour. This is measured in three ways: first, the time it takes to complete civil education and the level of education acquired; second, how the conscripts will find employment; and third,...

Information and communications technology, global value chains, and population ageing are changing the structures of the labour market. These three factors affect the tasks carried out in Finland in the future and the division of labour between humans and computers. The changes are taking place...

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on job market signalling and on education as a job market signal. Possible economic implications of educational job market signalling to an individual and the society are represented based on existing theories. The paper also reviews...

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...