This paper explores employment trends and structural changes in the labour force of Finnish manufacturing over the 10-year period 1985_95 and analyses the role thereby played by technological progress. The main results may be summarised as follows. The employment- enhancing role of high-tech...

This study is one of several so-called theme reports produced within the framework of the EU funded research project FLEXIBILITY AND COMPETITIVENESS: LABOUR MARKET FLEXIBILITY, INNOVATION AND ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE (FlexCom). It attempts to make an empirical contribution to the functional...

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...