The present study analyses migration patterns in Finland to test if microeconomic evidence for the Harris-Todaro model … can be found. The Harris-Todaro hypothesis states that rural-urban migration stems from regional differences in the wage … evidence for the Harris-Todaro model and concludes that rural urban migration is a result of higher wages and, even more so …

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on job market signalling and on education as a job market … importance of relative education as an explanatory variable in a Mincerian- style wage equation. I find the conclusions of this … method to be dependent on the reference group used in defining relative education. Consequently also the second method yields …

negative effects by increasing net migration. Our calculations show that a yearly net migration of 44,000 persons is needed to … stabilize the size of the birth cohorts and the labor force with the current age and gender structure of net migration. The … future net migration of 15,000 persons, also projected by Statistics Finland. We utilize in our numerical calculations a …

negative effects by increasing net migration. Our calculations show that a yearly net migration of 44,000 persons is needed to … stabilize the size of the birth cohorts and the labor force with the current age and gender structure of net migration. The … future net migration of 15,000 persons, also projected by Statistics Finland. We utilize in our numerical calculations a …

is measured in three ways: first, the time it takes to complete civil education and the level of education acquired … further find that longer military service does not prolong the attainment of civil education and does not cause a reduction in …

-owned firms have a longer and higher education than the personnel of domestic non-multinational firms. Foreign-owned firms pay …

as well as international literature. A distinction is thereby made between the role and impact of the education system … that early-year education and ALMP measures are typically targeted at differently aged young people. Apart from young …

to the year 2009. The analysis focuses on their participation in various modes of adult education and their long …-term labour market outcomes. Employees in declining occupations are found to have participated only moderately in adult education …. The result is the same also when adult education is split into four main modes, and into shorter and longer time horizons …