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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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This report describes how Finland succeeds in international comparisons of investments into and outcomes from education. OECD publications (Education at a Glance, PISA, IALS) are the main sources of this report. All levels of the education system, from pre-primary education to the second stage...
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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...
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This report describes how Finland succeeds in international comparisons of investments into and outcomes from education. OECD publications (Education at a Glance, PISA, IALS) are the main sources of this report. All levels of the education system, from pre-primary education to the second stage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199883
Municipal employees and private-sector employees in Finland belong to separate earnings-related pension systems. Both systems are financed by contributions from the payroll, and are mostly pay-as-you-go. Thus if a municipality decides to buy services from the private sector, instead of producing...
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This study analyses the adjustment of the Finnish earnings-related pension system to very low economic growth. The results show that a permanently lower growth rate of the wage bill would raise only moderately the pension contribution rates in the long term. This is because also the benefits are...
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We study the use of pension funds in the Finnish earnings-related pension system with the aim of smoothing contributions over time under demographic and economic risks. Smoothing is affected by the revisions in long-term forecasts and is thus imperfect. As a partially funded defined-benefit...
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