This paper analyses regional labour market adjustment in the Finnish provinces during 1971-96. It investigates the interrelations of employment, unemployment and labour force participation to examine how a change in labour demand is adjusted to. The study questions the usual assumption that...

Kangasharju A. and Pekkala S. (2004) Increasing regional disparities in the 1990s: the Finnish experience, Reg. Studies38, 255-267. This paper investigates why regional disparities in Finland started to grow in the early 1990s, after a decades-long period of convergence. The analysis focuses on...

The returns to scale in the matching function play an important role in models with endogenous search effort. Due to positive externalities, increasing returns to scale in matching can support high or low activity equilibrium in the labour market. In this study, we examine this issue using panel...

This paper investigates the effects of business subsidies on the employment of firms in Finland, and explores possible regional differences in the effects. Employment of some 26,000 firms is followed annually between 1995-1998. We find that labour subsidies increase the firms' own employment...

KANGASHARJU A. (1999) Relative economic performance in Finland; regional convergence, 1934-1993, Reg. Studies 33 , 207-217. This paper analyses the convergence behaviour of the 88 Finnish subregions from 1934 to 1993 by examining the development of relative income levels. Convergence was studied...