This is the country report on Finland in the project launched by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions on the social implicatins of EMU, especially in the labour market and industrial relations, insix EU countries. The report is essentially based on the...

This paper argues that labor markets across Europe vary dramatically in their fundamental features and rigidities across Europe. Thus, any discussion of an optimum currency area should focus on the differences and the idiosyncratic changes in the labor markets. After demonstrating the vast...