This paper provides a brief overview of the Finnish wage bargaining system and its evolution over the past decades into its current mode by drawing on existing documents, reports and analyses. The emphasis is on the changes having occurred in the system’s overall structure as well as in its...

This paper attempts to contrast the traditional view of there being a fundamental trade-off between productive efficiency (and/or growth) and social equality against the current knowledge on these matters as mediated by theoretical and empirical analyses reported in the more recent literature of...

Tässä raportissa esitetään hiljattain valmistuneen EU-rahoitteisen tutkimushankkeen keskeisimpiä tuloksia. Hankkeen painopiste oli koulutuksen yksilöille tuottamassa taloudellisessa hyödyssä palkassa mitattuna sekä julkisen rahoituksen vaikutuksissa tähän yksityistaloudelliseen...

This study explores the evolution of private returns to education in Finland by using a simple Mincer earnings equation framework and cross-sections of the Finnish Labour Force Survey compiled by Statistics Finland. Attempts are also made to examine the sensitivity of educational returns to the...

The economic turbulence that has characterised the Finnish economy over the past decade or so has had considerable impact on employment trends and thus on the mobility of individuals between jobs as well as between employment and non-employment. Apart from a marked shift in employment from...

We study how upgrading the skills of the personnel affects a firm’s performance. Two different strategies are examined: 1) providing formal training and 2) strategic recruitment and separation policy. The use of register-based longitudinal employeremployee data supplemented with a survey on...

Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan koulutuksen yksilötason tuottoasteiden evoluutiota Suomessa, käyttäen hyväksi Mincerin ansioyhtälömenetelmää ja Tilastokeskuksen työvoimatutkimuksen poikkileikkausaineistoja. Lisäksi selvitetään koulutuksen tuottoasteiden herkkyyttä suhteessa...

In this paper we report on four topics. (1) To what extent are piece-rate systems used among manufacturing workers in Finland? (2) What is the effect on the average pay level of using piece- versus time-rate systems? (3) How much wage risk is associated with a piecerate system? (4) How much of...

This non-technical paper attempts to explore our current state-of-knowledge on the economic benefits arising from company-provided training. More precisely, it reviews the empirical training literature in the search for answers to the following policy-relevant questions: What kind of training do...

The failure to achieve equitable access to university studies has turned the focus to the funding of European higher education systems. Since the large amounts of public subsidies injected in tertiary-level education have not succeeded in reducing disparities in access for children from...