Labour market, education economics

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

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 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

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

The project studies productivity enhancing mechanisms in the service sector with the emphasis being on . how to effectively combine ICT with intangible investments. The results of the project can be utilized in policy initiatives aimed at improving productivity, innovation policy and management of private and public services. The first part of the project analyzes

The fields of personnel and organizational economics have started to develop and test models of the internal workings of firms, paying particular attention to careers within firms. This project takes a new approach on career and wage dynamics by using a large longitudinal linked employer-employee dataset. By adopting this approach, we make the following three