Using information on collective agreements and administrative data on mental ill-health, sickness absence, and job separations, we study the effect of decentralization on well-being at work in Finland. Our regression results with individual-and firm-level fixed effects show that decentralized...

We study the earnings and employment effects of enrollment in formal adult education in Finland using a combination of matching and panel data methods. We also conduct cost-benefit analyses. The results show that adult education increases earnings and employment both in secondary and higher...

Using information on collective agreements and administrative data on mental ill-health, sickness absence, and job separations, we study the effect of decentralization on well-being at work in Finland. Our regression results with individual-and firm-level fixed effects show that decentralized...

The decline of working age population makes it difficult to find employees. In this report we analyze the evolution of immigrant employment in Finland and the fiscal impact of immigration as well as the effect on the labor market. We show that the number of employed immigrants as well as...

Recently, Finnish forest industries shifted from sectoral collective bargaining to firm-level bargaining, and the IT services industry shifted to a hybrid of sector- and firm-level bargaining. Using administrative data on monthly wages and the synthetic difference-in-differences method, I study...

The gender wage gap is largely due to men and women holding different kinds of jobs. This job segregation is partly driven by gender differences in careers in corporate hierarchies. Research has shown that the careers of men and women begin to diverge immediately upon entry into the labor market...

The aim of this paper is to examine rent sharing under a heterogeneous workforce using linked employer-employee Finnish data in 1987-1998 located in Statistics Finland. It is shown that rent sharing moderates firm-level wages and that the highly educated workers are the main targets. In...

Tämä selvitys tarkastelee yrittäjiä, jotka kuuluvat Ekonomiliittoon, Insinööriliittoon tai Tekniikan akateemisiin. Palkkakyselyihin perustuva aineisto kattaa vuodet 1999-2002. Selvityksessä keskitytään tuloihin ja työaikaan. Huolimatta keskittymisestä korkeasti koulutettuihin, ovat...

We analyze how features of performance-related pay (PRP) schemes affect their perceived motivational effects using a Finnish survey from 1999. The results show that the following features are important for a successful PRP scheme: (i) the employees have to feel they are able to affect the...

The aim of this paper is to examine profit sharing using Finnish linked employer-employee data in 1996-2000. The use of profit sharing is predicted by the share of the highly educated, R&D and capital intensity, business risk, firm size and the desire to have some stability in the skilled...