Labour market and education

Research on labour markets and education focuses on the transformation of work and adaptation to it. Technological change, globalization and demographic change are reflected in the structure of the labour force and skills required in the labor market. At the same time, the employment rate should be raised to strengthen public finances.

Personnel of the research group

Kauhanen, Antti

Research director

antti.kauhanen@etla.fi

050 569 7627

Labour market, education economics...

Riukula, Krista

Researcher (on maternity leave)

krista.riukula@etla.fi

040 744 6261

Labour market, education

Valmari, Nelli

Researcher (on maternity leave)

nelli.valmari@etla.fi

+358 40 755 6950

Productivity, product markets.

Virtanen, Hanna

Chief research scientist

hanna.virtanen@etla.fi

044 589 0448

Education, labour market

Vanhala, Pekka

Research secretary, Project officer

pekka.vanhala@etla.fi

044 465 0158

Labour markets&education, Horizon2020 administration

Hirvonen, Johannes

Research Trainee

johannes.hirvonen@etla.fi

050 517 3524

Labour markets, demand for...

Nevavuo, Jenni

Researcher

jenni.nevavuo@etla.fi

050 4667714

Labour market, competition

Selected research

Research began 2021 Research ends 2022

Flexibility and adaptability of labor market system in global competition

This research project examines the link between labor market system and employment in the light of the economic literature. The project also describes how negotiation systems are decentralized in Sweden, Denmark and Germany. The project answers following research questions:

Research began 2017 Research ends 2021

Promotions, Wages, and Worker Mobility across Firms

The objective of this proposal is to go beyond the prior literature on career and wage dynamics by studying the interplay between within-firm careers and job mobility, which is an important unexplored area in the field of personnel economics.

Research began 2019 Research ends 2021

Urban Growth – GSIP Vantaa

Urban Growth - GSIP Vantaa (Growth and Social Investment Pacts (GSIP) for Local Companies in the City of Vantaa) is an EU Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) initiative that aims at improving employees’ skills at companies with low-skilled workforce. GSIPs

Research began 2020 Research ends 2021

Is it worth investing in adult education?

Hundreds of millions of euros are spend on adult education in Finland each year. In Finland it is hardly known whether adult education is improving employment, adapting to job revolution or development of earnings. This project is extensively exploring

Research began 2020 Research ended 2020

Meta-analysis of the effectiveness of labor policy

Achieving the government’s 75% employment target requires decisive action to improve employment. Increasing the employment rate will only be successful if the measures taken are effective. Such measures may relate to active labor market policies, unemployment schemes, invalidity benefit

Research began 2018 Research ended 2020

The effect of regional availability of upper secondary education

We seek to understand how institutional factors in the supply of education affect the upper-secondary education choices of individuals, their educational attainment, and labor market outcomes later in their careers. We exploit the variation in the education supply over

Research began 2018 Research ended 2018

A review of research assessing the effects of active labour market policy measures

This project has produced a concise, popular review of national economic research assessing the effects of active labour market policy measures undertaken in Finland. The report is written in Finnish and will be published in early 2019.

Research began 2016 Research ended 2017

Student selection to higher education and speeding up studies

An aim of the project was to study how applying and access to higher education have changed as a consequence of the student selection reforms and other policy action related to the aim of speeding up studies and, whether

Research began 2017 Research ended 2018

The effects of wage subsidies on the employability and employment

The aim of the project has been to comprehensively evaluate the impact of wage subsidies on unemployed persons’ subsequent employment and earnings, whereby the focus has been on the system of wage subsidies in place in the early 2010s

Research began 2016 Research ended 2019

Occupational restructuring challenges competencies

The central idea of the research is to comprehensively assess the role of competencies - their acquisition, maintenance, development and renewal - in enhancing successful labour market transition, as well as stabilized employment and re-entry after non-employment in times

Research began 2016 Research ended 2019

Better late than never?

Better late than never? School, training and work for late upper secondary school completers in the Nordic countries is a comparative Nordic study concerning young people who do not complete upper secondary schooling on regular time. The primary goal

Research began 2016 Research ended 2017

The effect of education on crime and labor market outcomes

This study examined how the admission success to upper secondary education and participation in the post-compulsory schooling affect crime behavior and labor market outcomes. Each year almost five percent of the cohort graduating from compulsory education fails to receive

Research began 2015 Research ended 2017

Workplace innovations, productivity, and employee well-being

The aim of this research project was to evaluate the impact of high involvement management that stresses the importance of worker autonomy on both firm performance and various measures of subjective well-being at work. Management styles are an important

Research began 2012 Research ended 2017

Career and wage dynamics within and between firms

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 took a new approach on career and wage dynamics by

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