This study examines job search behaviour by the help of two separate survey data samples. The stock sample represents those job seekers who were either unemployed or in active labour market programmes. The flow sample represents those job seekers, who received a job from open labour market or...

In Finland, shifts in compensation have been of a kind comparable to those in the United States, similar but with a moderate, increasing wage variance between plants, an increasing gap between average non-productive- and productive-worker wages, and an increasing share of non-production workers....

Organizational activity, information and communication technology work, and research and development (R&D) can be classified as work that creates intangible capital. We measure the returns to these three types of labor input by accounting for differences in their productivity compared with other...

This study uses linked employer-employee data from Finland over the period 1989-1996 to examine human capital, wage formation and its relation to firm characteristics such as high wages in large firms. The mean wage differential between plants in the 10th and 90th size classes equals 21% of the...

In this study on labour input and wage formation in Finland the importance of liquidity constraints measured by the ratio of interest payments to cash flow is examined. Financial solvency problems are shown to lead to a reduction in labour input, potentially explaining for the most part the 16%...