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Finland Selected Issues

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 s...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2007
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
Subjects:
Unemployment Insurance
Labour; Income Economics
Employment; Economic Theory
Public Finance & Taxation
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, And Job Search
Labor Markets
Aggregate Labor Productivity
Unemployment
Demand And Supply Of Labor: General
Aggregate Human Capital
Labor
Expenditure
Severance Pay
Labor Economics: General
Plant Closings
Labor Market
Macroeconomics
Unemployment Benefits
Wages
Intergenerational Income Distribution
Public Finance
Employment
Labor Economics
Finland
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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
Physical Description:37 pages
ISBN:9781451813272

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