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Employment Growth and Labour Market Flexibility in OECD Countries
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1998-01-01)
This paper investigates the adjustment of employment to population shocks in 22 OECD countries over the period 1960 - 1997. Most of the countries have experienced significant population shocks during that period. The speed ...
Unemployment and Migration: Does Moving Help?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-07-04)
This paper studies the migration behaviour of the unemployed in Finland, and analyses the causal effect of moving on individual employment status. In 1994 17 per cent of the labour force was unemployed and the unemployment ...
Vocational Labour Market Training in Promoting Youth Employment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2007-12-05)
This study evaluates the employment effects of vocational labour market training in Finnish youth labour markets. We are especially interested in whether the timing of an intervention matters. We explore this issue by ...
Varying Biases in the Matching Estimates: Evidence from Two Randomized Job Search Training Experiments
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2008-02-07)
We compare various matching estimators to the results of two randomized field experiments that evaluate employment effects of job search training programs. We find that commonly used non-experimental matching estimators ...
What Kind of Job-broker is the Public Employment Service? Evidence from Finnish Job Vacancy Midrodata in 2002-2003
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2005-01-14)
This study analyses the job-broking function of the Finnish Public Employment Service (PES). The empirical analysis is based on the Finnish job vacancy microdata in 2002 and 2003 including information on over 320,000 job ...
Estimating Equilibrium Search Models from Finnish Data
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2001-05-31)
Empirical equilibrium search models have attracted a growing interest in recent years. Estimation of such models has not been completely successful, however. This has led researchers to develop more sophisticated versions ...
A Distributional Analysis of Displacement Costs in an Economic Depression and Recovery
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2008-12-31)
We study the earnings losses of Finnish private sector workers who lost their jobs at two very different points in the business cycle. The first group was displaced in 1992 (depression period) and the second one in 1997 ...
Internal Migration and Labour Market Transitions of Unemployment Workers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1998-01-01)
This study examines two questions: how does internal migration affect labour market transitions of unemployed workers in 1994 and what are the determinants of migration in 1990 - 95. In both cases multinomial logit model ...
Business Cycle, unemployment Trap and Effects of Economic Incentives on Job Finding Probability
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1998-01-01)
This paper considers the sensitivity of the household's disposable income with respect to the labour market states and the labour market transitions of unemployed workers. The paper analyses the following questions: (i) ...
The Evolution of the Finnish Model in the 1990s: from Depression to High-tech Boom
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2004-12-15)
Finland has recently got much admiration due to economic success reflected in rankings of competitiveness, technology, education and economic growth. This success has largely been embodied in the growth of Nokia group and ...