The Service Sector in Finland: A Nordic Lilliputian

Petri Böckerman ()

No 162, Working Papers from Työn ja talouden tutkimus LABORE, Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE

Abstract: An international comparison suggests that the share of private services in terms of output and employment is rather low in Finland. This feature raises several interesting questions. What explains this particular feature of the Finnish production structure? How has the great depression of the early 1990s influenced the structure of private services in Finland? What kind of policy measures could be implemented in order to increase the share of private services from a long-run perspective? Finnish service employment also contains a number of other interesting particularities in an international comparison. Within a corporatist framework, these include a rather large public sector employer, high female participation rate, but on the other hand a low share of part-time work.

Pages: 35 pages
Date: 1999-11-11
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://labore.fi/wp-content/uploads/1999/11/Tutkimusselosteita-162.pdf First version, 1999 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pst:wpaper:162

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Työn ja talouden tutkimus LABORE, Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Aila Mustonen ().