Finland: Selected Issues

September 23, 1997

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Finland: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed September 19, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper reviews some features of the labor market in Finland during the 1990s. In particular, it reviews patterns of employment and wage distribution across sectors. The paper describes the main regulatory features and formal structure of labor market arrangements: the wage negotiation process, employment legislation, income replacement regulations for the unemployed, and the recent changes in these areas introduced by the government. The paper also describes the structure of labor taxation, and reviews the theory and existing empirical evidence concerning the effects of taxation on labor market outcomes.

Subject: Capital income, Corporate income tax, Employment, Income, Labor, Labor taxes, National accounts, Personal income, Taxes, Wages

Keywords: Capital income, Corporate income tax, CR, Employment, EMU monetary policy, EU country, Europe, Income, ISCR, Labor taxes, Negotiation, Negotiation process, Nominal exchange rate, Terms of trade shock, Wage, Wage agreement, Wage negotiation process, Wages, Western Europe

Publication Details

Pages:

93
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 1997/060
Stock No:

1FINEA0011997
ISBN:

9781451813135
ISSN:

1934-7685

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