This study contains an empirical analysis of gross job and worker flows in the context of the great depression of the early 1990s. The novelty of the empirical implemention is to characterize gross job and worker flows in terms of education and experience of employees. This is an important...

This paper contains an empirical analysis of gross job flows in the context of the great depression of the early 1990s in Finland. The job flows are characterised in terms of employee age and education. The outflow of workers from employment occurs mainly through unemployment, unemployment...

This study contains an empirical analysis of gross job and worker flows in the context of the great depression of the early 1990s. The novelty of the empirical implemention is to characterize gross job and worker flows in terms of education and experience of employees. This is an important...

This literature review starts with a general discussion of young people and their various activities with special emphasis on youth unemployment and the outcome of alternative ways of measuring the prevalence of unemployment among young people. Thereafter the focus turns to measures targeted at...

We study the effects of compulsory military service in Finland on the conscripts future labour market behaviour. This is measured in three ways : first, the time it takes to complete civil education and the level of education acquired; second, how the conscripts will find employment; and third,...

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on job market signalling and on education as a job market signal. Possible economic implications of educational job market signalling to an individual and the society are represented based on existing theories. The paper also reviews...

The paper examines the causal effect of education on common individual mental disorders in adulthood. We use a representative population health survey and instrumental variable methods. The estimates point to mostly insignificant effects of education on common mental disorders. We find that the...

This descriptive paper analyses structural characteristics of Finnish university departments (FIDs) and benchmarks them against foreign university departments from Scandinavia, the UK and the US (FODs). In the first place the study aims to reveal information on differences in department size. In...