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This book is based on the papers and comments presented at the conference on "Labour Market Institutions and Employment", in Helsinki, November 24-25, 2000. The goal of the conference was to evaluate the potential role of ...

At the turn of the millennium will the world continue to be dominated by the mature economies of Western Europe, North America and Japan or will new powers of equal stature arise? What will Europe be like outside of the ...

In this paper we evaluate the effects of a regional experiment that reduced payroll taxes by 3-6 percentage points in Northern Finland for three years. We match each firm in the target region with a similar firm in the ...

Abstract: I study the assimilation of immigrants to the Finnish labor market and welfare system. The initial immigrant-native earnings gaps are large. While longterm immigrants experience a rapid earnings growth, only men ...

In Finland, it is forecasted that mass unemployment will persist for the whole of the 1990s. How can unemployment be brought down and the trend towards long-term unemployment be broken? Are flexibility and structural reforms ...

This paper analyses regional labour market adjustment in the Finnish provinces during 1976-2000. It investigates the inter-relations of employment, unemployment, labour force participation and migration to see how a change ...

We document large differences in educational attainment, criminal sentences and use of psychotropic medication between the children of immigrants and natives living in Finland. Among the offspring of immigrants from the ...

We employ the original Card and Krueger (1994) and Neumark and Wascher (2000) data together with the changes-in-changes (CIC) estimator to re-examine the evidence of the effect of minimum wages on employment. Our study ...

In this paper we consider the effects of labour taxation on wages, unemployment and efficiency in a job matching framework. We derive labour market equilibrium with taxes in a model of endogenous job creation and job ...

This report evaluates the tax-benefit reforms in 1996?2001. The Government appointed a working group in 1995 to plan the tax-benefit reforms. The proposals of the group were first implemented in 1997 and all the measures ...