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...

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...