Unemployment and Labour Market Flexibility: FinlandThe emerging Finnish Model of social labour markets is likely to be a source of growing international interest in the 1990s. This book examines Finland's reputation for economic dynamism and social welfare in the face of the challenges raised by structural adjustment. |
Contents
Towards a Finnish model? | 1 |
Tables | 14 |
Incidence of longterm unemployment selected countries 198085 | 27 |
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The regional incidence of absolute and relative unemployment 1985 | 33 |
Changes in the industrial structure by region 197788 | 34 |
Labour force participation rates by age and sex 197088 | 40 |
Womens labour force participation rates by marital status and presence | 41 |
Contributions to changes in the tax wedge on labour 196684 | 106 |
Age distribution of persons in fulltime and parttime employment 1977 | 112 |
ཆེ བཎྜབ | 116 |
Main reasons for working part time as percentage of total parttime | 119 |
Industrial enterprises by size and share in total employment 197486 | 126 |
Finnish direct net investment abroad and foreign direct net investment | 127 |
Labour market policy against unemployment | 132 |
Job content and working conditions according to the use of new information | 134 |
Agespecific unemployment rates 197288 | 51 |
Labour force participation rates selected years 197288 | 57 |
Number of longterm unemployed monthly 198188 | 62 |
Distribution of unemployment by duration by age group 1986 | 65 |
The composition of changes in total labour costs and product prices | 69 |
Share of employees compensation in value added and its components | 71 |
Interregional mobility of Finnish population relative net migration in | 82 |
Decomposition of real wages responsiveness selected countries 195285 | 85 |
Termination of employment spells by reason 198687 | 87 |
Wage differentials of manufacturing workers between agreement areas | 91 |
Changes in employment and average hourly wages in different manufacturing | 93 |
Nonwage labour costs as percentage of total labour costs in manufacturing | 100 |
Total hourly labour costs in manufacturing in five OECD countries 197388 | 105 |
Dispersion of the average duration of job vacancies across occupations | 138 |
The evolution of labour market policy | 142 |
Employment appropriations for public works schemes as a percentage | 144 |
Unemployed recipients of unemployment benefits and participants in labour | 151 |
Regional distribution of unemployed jobseekers persons employed with | 152 |
Labour market policy for regional adjustment | 153 |
Selective employment programmes | 173 |
Concluding remarks | 193 |
Whither the employment line? | 200 |
Work flexibility and the strengthening of citizenship | 207 |
Redundancy pay reappraisal | 217 |
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Age group aggregate demand average cent Central Finland centralised compensation contributions decline developments duration early retirement effect employers employment contracts employment mobility employment security Employment Service statistics employment subsidies enterprises Eriksson factors figure Finnish Economy full-time Greater Helsinki growth Helsinki hysteresis incomes policy increased industrial Institute labour districts Labour Force Survey labour market policy labour market training labour supply long-term unemployed manufacturing migration minimum wages Ministry of Labour municipalities NAIRU natural rate negotiated Nordic Nordic countries Northern Finland occupations OECD older workers pension schemes percentage points period persons placement private sector production public sector rate of unemployment real wage regional relative Santamäki share social security Source spells of unemployment Sweden Table tax wedge total labour costs trade unions unem unemployed jobseekers unemployment benefits unemployment pensions unemployment rate unemployment spells University of Jyväskylä Uusimaa vacancies wage differentials wage drift women youth unemployment