Labour market, education economics

Where do workers engaged in shrinking jobs end up – and why?

This project will identify shrinking job tasks in the Finnish private sector, describe the transition pathways into other jobs of those engaged in these shrinking tasks, and explore the potential influence on the observed pathways of a broad set of background factors and mechanisms (linked to the individual, the job, the employer, etc.). Doing so, […]

The Nordic Welfare Model after the financial crisis – Challenges and possible solutions (NORWELL)

The overall objective of the NORWELL project is to scrutinize the current competitiveness of the Nordic Model, identify key challenges, recommend evidence-based policy solutions.   For more information, please visit the project homepage.  

Changing occupational structures and implications for the quality of labour inputs, wage trends and productivity

The project explores the impact of technological change on private-sector workforce and, especially, occupational structures in Finland. The first task of the project is to establish a comprehensive picture of the changes having occurred in occupational structures, and to also unravel major development trends behind these changes. This work utilizes approaches recently suggested by, inter […]

Features of incentive pay plans and productivity

The project studies how the features of incentive pay plans affect their productivity effects using both large scale firm-level data sets and case studies. The results can be used to design more effective incentive plans. The main research questions are: How do the features of incentive plans affect their productivity effects? Have the incentive plans […]

The evolution and challenges of gender pay equality

The project explores the level and changes over time in the gender wage gap of four particular branches of the Finnish private sector: logistics, enterprise services, telecommunications and special services. Attempts are also made to identify major background factors affecting observed gender wage gaps. The research work is based on the comprehensive wage database of […]

Youth Unemployment in the Nordic Countries

The project produces extensive cross-country comparative evidence on the dynamic nature of the labour market situation of youth in the Nordic countries and identifies key pathways of youth leaving school with different levels of education. While the emphasis is on school-to-work transitions, including early career experience, attempts will also be made to assess the role […]