Finland: Decentralisation Tendencies within a Collective Wage Bargaining System

Asplund Rita

This paper provides a brief overview of the Finnish wage bargaining system and its evolution over the past decades into its current mode by drawing on existing documents, reports and analyses. The emphasis is on the changes having occurred in the system’s over-all structure as well as in its main content. Finally attempts are made, by use of the existing empirical evidence, to contrast these changes against the development of wages and the unionisation rate. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of future challenges as ex-pressed in recent studies of the Finnish wage bargaining system.

Publication info

Series
Discussion Papers no. 1077
Date
2007
Keywords
collective agreement, Finland, wage bargaining
JEL
J52
Pages
31
Price
10 €
Availability of print version
Language
English