This paper analyses the effect of a housing allowance programme on the rent paid by assisted low-income households. The data consist of 12,000 rental households in the free-market and municipal sectors. The effect is estimated using the programme reform of 2002 as an instrument. The reform...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether a simple monopoly union model of wage and employment determination is consistent with the cyclical movements of wages and employment observed in the Finnish manufacturing and mining sector. Estimation of the two-equation model implies that...

The migration behaviour of the unemployed in Finland is analysed in terms of the causal effect of moving on individual employment status. In 1994, 17 percent of the labour force was unemployed and the unemployment rate exhibited a very slow decline in 1994-1996. Over half of those who were...