This paper describes divergences in employers' and employees' opinions on the proper share of local bargaining in contract wage gains in Finland. Employers want the locally bargained wage share to be approximately half of the total wage rise, while the majority of employees would prefer this...

This study examines job search behaviour by the help of two separate survey data samples. The stock sample represents those job seekers who were either unemployed or in active labour market programmes. The flow sample represents those job seekers, who received a job from open labour market or...

In Finland, shifts in compensation have been of a kind comparable to those in the United States, similar but with a moderate, increasing wage variance between plants, an increasing gap between average non-productive- and productive-worker wages, and an increasing share of non-production workers....