Arbeitspapier
Employment and unemployment in Finnish manufacturing 1985 - 95: Is technological progress the cause or the cure?
This paper explores employment trends and structural changes in the labour force of Finnish manufacturing over the 10-year period 1985_95 and analyses the role thereby played by technological progress. The main results may be summarised as follows. The employment- enhancing role of high-tech manufacturing industries has strengthened remarkably in Finland during the deep recession in the early 1990s. Thus, in terms of employment stability it does matter in which industry one happens to work. The structure of the labour force, on the other hand, has been re-shaped in a highly similar way irrespective of whether the industry can be classified as being high-tech or not. In other words, neither the least educated nor the oldest workers seem to have been in a more vulnerable situation in high-tech industries. The overall decline in the demand for low-skilled workers in manufacturing puts considerable pressure on re-training policies and early retirement arrangements. It is hardly realistic to assume that the jobs created in today’s Finland will automatically solve the unemployment problem of the low skilled. – employment ; labour force re-structuring ; manufacturing ; technology ; unemployment
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ETLA Discussion Papers ; No. 717
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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Beschäftigung
Arbeitslosigkeit
Strukturwandel
Technischer Fortschritt
Finnland
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Asplund, Rita
Lilja, Reija
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
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Helsinki
- (wann)
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2000
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Asplund, Rita
- Lilja, Reija
- The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
Entstanden
- 2000
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