Finland: Decentralisation Tendencies within a Collective Wage Bargaining System

Rita Asplund

No 1077, Discussion Papers from The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy

Abstract: This paper provides a brief overview of the Finnish wage bargaining system and its evolution over the past decades into its current mode by drawing on existing documents, reports and analyses. The emphasis is on the changes having occurred in the systems over-all structure as well as in its main content. Finally attempts are made, by use of the existing empirical evidence, to contrast these changes against the development of wages and the unionisation rate. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of future challenges as ex-pressed in recent studies of the Finnish wage bargaining system.

Keywords: collective agreement; Finland; wage bargaining (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2007
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