An analysis of the Graduate Labour Market in Finland: Spatial Agglomeration and Skill-Job Match

Davide Consoli (1, 2) , Francesco Vona (3) , Toni Saarivirta (4)

1 MIoIR - Manchester Institute of Innovation Research
2 INGENIO - Instituto de Gestión de la Innovación y del Conocimiento = Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management
3 OFCE - Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (Sciences Po)
4 Research Unit for Urban and Regional Development Studies

The recent history of Finland has been shaped by the rollercoaster of the 1990s when the economy went from deep recession to becoming among the most innovative and competitive within merely a decade. Economic recovery driven by the surge of ICT-related industries with the active support of the higher education system gave way also to growing inequalities among regions, especially within graduate workers. The paper elaborates an empirical analysis of the returns to education of a cohort entering the labour force between 1995 and 2005; our objective is to capture the extent of spatial and occupational determinants on income distribution as Finland slid from its most troubled to most prosperous times.

Mots clés: Social Sciences & Humanities

Domaines: Science politique

Davide Consoli, Francesco Vona, Toni Saarivirta. An analysis of the Graduate Labour Market in Finland: Spatial Agglomeration and Skill-Job Match. Regional Studies, 2011, pp.1. ⟨10.1080/00343404.2011.603721⟩. ⟨hal-00744817⟩