The economic turbulence that has characterised the Finnish economy over the past decade or so has had considerable impact on employment trends and thus on the mobility of individuals between jobs as well as between employment and non-employment. Apart from a marked shift in employment from...

The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the US faced a fast technological catch-up as European...