The economic turbulence that has characterised the Finnish economy over the past decade or so has had considerable impact on employment trends and thus on the mobility of individuals between jobs as well as between employment and non-employment. Apart from a marked shift in employment from...

Is it possible for low-paid workers to obtain higher-paid jobs through upward mobility over time within the earnings distribution? Based on new empirical evidence from a number of European countries, the book focuses on earnings mobility, an issue that is of increasing concern to policymakers...