Search results for "palkka"

Micro-investment perspective and the potential of the universal basic income

2018

In this article, we explore the prospects of Basic Income (BI) as a development policy tool. Our approach is to analyse the BI as a tool for promoting micro-investments and as a general development policy instrument, thus deliberately departing from the perception of cash transfers as targeted poverty reduction tools. As experiences in testing BI systems in developing country contexts are limited to local and regional experiments in Namibia and India (Haarmann et al., 2009; Haarmann & Haarmann, 2012; Davala et al., 2015), conclusive assessments about the impacts of the BI cannot be drawn. Therefore, we aim to estimate potential impacts of the BI by synthesising existing knowledge. This esti…

Technological change and wage premiums: historical evidence from linked employer-employee data

2013

This study analyses the impacts of a technological change (the steam engine) on wage premiums. Using historical employer–employee panel data, we found that steam technology had both new skill-demanding and skill-replacing aspects. The former manifested itself as an increase in the demand for high-skilled engineers, the latter in a decline in the demand for intermediate-skilled, able-bodied seamen and an increase in the demand for unskilled engine room operators. Our panel data analysis, which controls for unobserved heterogeneity, implies that high-skilled labourers in abstract tasks and unskilled labourers in manual tasks improved their wage positions relative to intermediate-skilled labou…

More skilled, better paid : labour-market returns to postsecondary vocational education

2017

Outside the USA, relatively little is known about the labour-market returns to postsecondary vocational (or polytechnic) education. Yet, polytechnics in Europe are distinct from US community colleges. This paper focuses on the labour-market returns to polytechnic attendance in Finland, where polytechnics are representative of many European countries. Using matching methods and longitudinal administrative data, we find that, compared to individuals with no postsecondary education, students who attend polytechnics have higher annual earnings of €3,300 to €3,700 and employment gains of 2.5 to 6.6 percentage points 10 years after the entry decision. However, the returns vary by personal charact…

Wage-setting coordination in a small open economy

2022

This paper studies wage-setting coordination in a two-sector, open economy dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. Two large sectoral unions anticipate the effects of their wage demands on aggregate variables. In an open economy, there are externalities that the unions can take into account to increase aggregate welfare, but the strategic interaction between the sectoral unions tends to erode this gain. When wage coordination takes place through a wage norm set by either of the sectors, this minimizes the strategic interaction. However, wage norms create welfare losses as sector-specific wage adjustment is required to make an efficient adjustment to shocks. Peer reviewed

Sama koulutus - eri urat : tutkimus Mainzin yliopistossa soveltavaa kielitiedettä vuosina 1965-2001 opiskelleiden suomalaisten urakehityksestä palkka…

2008

The focus of the present study is to describe the connection between the Finnish students’ studies of applied linguistics in the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, and their later working career. One specific field of competence that all of them have is the skill of German language and the knowledge of German culture. The career development has led some students to become entrepreneurs, some to become freelancers, and some to become salaried employees. The description is longitudinal.Becoming socially aware in a foreign culture is a notable feature in the respondents’ inner growth. This growing awareness is linked as a process to the various stages of their life cycles. By using…

The power of the economic outlook : an ideational explanation of the distinct pattern of Finnish wage setting within the Nordic context

2022

Industrial relations scholars are paying increasing attention to the role of ideas in explaining shifts in bargaining systems and wage policies. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by conducting a meso-level analysis of the uses and impacts of ideas in wage regulation policy processes in coordinated market economies. Through our in-depth case study of the Finnish policy process leading to the Competitiveness Pact of 2016, we argue that certain ideas – which we call the ‘economic outlook’ – prescribed and legitimized exhausting institutional resources in wage regulation and enabled temporary consensus among divergent interests regarding wage policy. The economic outlo…

Round Table. Nordic unions and the European Minimum Wage Directive

2022

Sustainability in executive remuneration : A missing link towards more sustainable firms?

2021

This paper contributes by showing simultaneously the interlinked challenges of sustainability-based (based on long-term economic, social and environmental targets) executive remuneration and the problems of transparency in remuneration reporting. Our empirical data, analyzed using qualitative content analysis, consists of the published remuneration statements and sustainability reports of 43 Finnish companies reporting according to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework. Our results indicate that comprehensive sustainability remuneration is still rare in Finnish large companies: long-term financial targets are implemented at most companies, but social or environmental targets were …

Pitkä ja kapea leipä : neuvottelu- ja sopimusjärjestelmien, kollektiivisen toiminnan ja koulutuksen vaikutukset kanta-aliupseerien palvelussuhteen eh…

2002

Kannattaako Suomessa kouluttautua ammatilliselle toiselle asteelle? : koulutuksen palkkavaikutus vuosina 1990-2010

2016

Tässä pro gradu -tutkielmassa tarkastellaan koulutuksen palkkavaikutusta Suomessa vuosien 1990-2010 välillä, ja tutkitaan erityisesti ammatillisen kou-lutuksen merkitystä. Työtäni motivoivat tuloerot, työmarkkinoiden rakenne-muutokset ja ammatillisen koulutuksen uudistus. Teoriapohjana ovat inhimil-lisen pääoman teoria ja Mincerin palkkafunktio, ja tutkimuksessa sivutaan myös osaamista suosivaa teknologista kehitystä. Lisäksi tutkimuksessani pohditaan opintojen keskeyttämistä ja paneudutaan perusasteen merkityk-seen Suomessa. Tutkimus toteutetaan estimoimalla Mincerin palkkafunktiota ja aineistona käytetään Tilastokeskuksen yksinkertaistettua työssäkäyntiaineistoa (FLEED). Lisäkoulutusvuode…