Haku

This survey presents findings from recent empirical studies on economic impacts of immigration with particular emphasis on European and Nordic countries. The survey consists of three parts. First, we look at the extent of ...

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 study analyses the labour market developments of selected 22 European countries during the last ten years. The developments in employment and unemployment as well as the most essential distributive effects are presented. ...

This PhD thesis is a collection of studies on retirement in Finland. The main purpose is to assess labour market transitions of the aged and focus on the e.ect of the economic incentives. All of the studies are empirical ...

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 ...

We evaluate direct wage subsidy programs to Finnish SMEs utilising as the unit of interest the firm and its characteristics. In estimating Average Treatment effects on the Treated firms (ATT) we apply recent techniques of ...