“Public Funding and Private Returns to Education - PURE” is a two-year EU-TSER financed research project that started on November 1, 1998. It involves as many as 15 European countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain,...

Rita Asplundin toimittamassa Education and Earnings -tutkimuksessa esitellään uutta eurooppalaista tutkimusta koulutuksen yksilöille tuottamasta taloudellisesta hyödystä. Tutkimuksessa käsitellään mm. koulutuksen ja työttömyyden välistä suhdetta, yritysten halua investoida...

This book explores the impact of public R&D funding on the economic performance of Finnish firms, especially in terms of productivity growth and job creation. Special attention is thereby paid to the potential influence exerted by two crucial characteristics of firms – their size and their...

The paper compares the gender wage differentials of two occupation groups innovation and non-innovation workers separately for manufacturing and services using Finnish private-sector data. We apply a decomposition method based on unconditional quantile regression techniques to identify key...

This paper compares the effects of intangible capital on wage formation among white-collar manufacturing workers using comparative data from three European countries : the Czech Republic, Finland and Norway. The analysis is undertaken in two steps. First, we explore the wage differentials and...

Labour-market polarization is characterized by increased employment in occupations at the top but also at the bottom of the skills and wage distributions, followed by a relative decline in middling occupations. This paper documents a polarization trend also in the Nordic labour markets and...

Both academia and policymakers express a strong belief in higher average education levels exerting a narrowing impact on wage inequality in general and gender wage gaps in particular. The present paper scrutinizes whether or not this effect extends to R&D- and export-intensive branches such as...

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...