This dissertation is an empirical study of the gender wage gap in Finland. Much of the dissertation focuses explicitly … the overall gender wage gap. The dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay explores the early-career gender … wage gap in the Finnish private sector. I find that the gender wage gap increases significantly during the first ten years …

unemployment » surveys. A review of recent studies about job quality shows the importance of multi-dimensional approaches. Yet few …. Risks of short-term and badly paid jobs have also been explored. It appears that leaving unemployment leads massively to low …

country has experienced since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate reached as high as 10.1 percent in October 2009 … those in the past by examining worker flows into and out of unemployment taking into account changes in the demographic …, gender and race. We find that adjusting for the aging of the U.S. labor force increases the severity of this recession. Our …

characteristics contribute much toward the incidence of wage arrears. As with the incidence of unemployment however, there is evidence …