Finland: Selected Issues

August 6, 2007

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Finland: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2007) accessed November 23, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper investigates the possible contribution of activation strategies—in a broad sense—to improve employment rates in Finland. It summarizes recent labor market developments in Finland, and investigates respectively the limitation of current unemployment and disability benefit schemes. The paper identifies possible strategies to activate recipients, and focuses on strategies to boost youth employment rates. The paper also discusses the possibility of using in-work benefit systems to create incentives to work at the low-skilled end of the labor market.

Subject: Employment, Expenditure, Labor, Labor markets, Unemployment, Unemployment benefits

Keywords: Allowance scheme, CR, Disability benefit, Early retirement, Employment, Employment rate, ISCR, Job offer, Labor markets, Make-work pay strategy, Minimum wage, Northern Europe, OECD labor market program data set, Unemployment, Unemployment benefits, Wage distribution, Wage subsidy

Publication Details

Pages:

37
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2007/278
Stock No:

1FINEA2007001
ISBN:

9781451813272
ISSN:

1934-7685

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