Petri Böckerman
- Chief Researcher
- Health Economics, Labour Economics
- Tel. +358-40 091 3189
- E-mail: petri.bockerman@labore.fi
- At Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE: 1996
- Education: PhD (Economics)
Peer-reviewed Scientific Articles
- 25.11.2025 – Income–Well-Being Gradient in Sickness and Health
- 24.2.2025 – Does high involvement management make you work longer? Insights from linked survey and register data
- 11.10.2023 – Dark Passage: Mental Health Consequences of Parental Death
- 12.3.2021 – School Tracking and Mental Health
- 4.1.2021 – Determinants of prescription opioid use: Population-based evidence from Finland
- 13.3.2018 – A Kink that Makes You Sick: The Effect of Sick Pay on Absence
- 1.4.2012 – The Job Satisfaction-productivity Nexus: A Study Using Matched Survey and Register Data
Publications in Labore's series
Studies
- 106 – Wage Differences in Finland: An Examination of the Structure and Development of Private Sector Wages
- 99 – Did the Polytechnic Reform Meet the Needs of the Labor Market?
- 81 – Job and Employee Turnover in Finland: A Regional Perspective
- 80 – A Study on Gross Job Flows of SMEs in Finland: The Importance of Employees’ Characteristics
Working Papers
- 357 – Pre-analysis plan: The Causal Effects of the Finnish Guarantee Pension on Health
- 349 – Born at the right time: Examining the effect of relative age on mental health in adulthood
- 348 – Are Firms Willing to Pay Lower Wages? A Quasi-Experiment on Subminimum Wage Policy
- 335 – Income–well-being gradient in sickness and health
- 324 – Labor-Market Returns to Higher Vocational Schooling
- 323 – Job Displacement, Inter-Regional Mobility and Long-Term Earnings
- 322 – Domain-specific risk and public policy
- 315 – Do good working conditions make you work longer? Evidence on retirement decisions using linked survey and register data
- 313 – Harsh times: Do stressors lead to labor market losses?
- 310 – Does Job Support Make Workers Happy?
- 303 – Are jobs more polarized in ICT firms?
- 302 – Seniority rules, worker mobility and wages: Evidence from multi-country linked employer-employee data
- 297 – A Kink that Makes You Sick: the Effect of Sick Pay on Absence in a Social Insurance System
- 294 – Using twins to resolve the twin problem of having a bad job and a low wage
- 292 – A Kink that Makes You Sick: The Incentive Effect of Sick Pay on Absence
- 287 – Does higher education enhance migration?
- 280 – Stature and life-time labor market outcomes: Accounting for unobserved differences
- 277 – Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-being – Is There a Silver Lining?
- 270 – The effect of polytechnic reform on migration
- 262 – Job security and employee well-being: Evidence from matched survey and register data
- 257 – Top income shares and mortality: Evidence from advanced countries
- 255 – Innovative Work Practices and Sickness Absence: What Does a Nationally Representative Employee Survey Tell?
- 253 – Predictors of sickness absence and presenteeism: Does the pattern differ by a respondent’s health?
- 252 – International outsourcing and labour demand: Evidence from Finnish firm-level data
- 247 – Globalization, creative destruction, and labor share change: Evidence on the determinants and mechanisms from longitudinal plant-level data
- 245 – Who stay unwillingly in a job? A study based on a representative random sample of employees
- 244 – What makes you work while you are sick? Evidence from a survey of union members
- 243 – The return to the technological frontier: The conditional effects of plants’ R&D on their productivity in Finnish manufacturing
- 238 – Minimum wages and youth employment: Evidence from the Finnish retail trade sector
- 233 – Labour Market Effects of Polytechnic Education Reform: The Finnish Experience
- 227 – Unemployment and self-assessed health: Evidence from panel data
- 224 – Interaction of Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction, and Sickness Absences: Evidence From a Representative Sample of Finnish Workers
- 221 – Enemy of Labour? Analysing the Employment Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions
- 219 – Micro-level evidence on wage rigidities in Finland
- 217 – Too Much, Too Soon? Polytechnic Graduate Placement in Finnish Manufacturing
- 213 – Union Membership and the Erosion of the Ghent System: Lessons from Finland
- 210 – Elusive Effects of Unemployment on Happiness
- 208 – Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction and on-the-Job Search: Is There a Nexus?
- 203 – Do Job Disamenities Raise Wages or Ruin Job Satisfaction?
- 201 – Does Labour Market Reorganization Reduce Unemployment?
- 198 – Yrityskaupat Suomessa: Onko maantieteellä väliä?
- 196 – Is Variation in Hours of Work Driven by Supply or Demand? Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Industries
- 193 – Arvopaperimarkkinat suomalaisen palkansaajan näkökulmasta
- 191 – Who Bear the Burden of Wage Cuts? Evidence from Finland during the 1990s
- 190 – Does Geography Play a Role in Takeovers? Theory and Finnich Micro-level Evidence
- 189 – Working Hours and Labour Market Flows
- 186 – The Micro-level Sources of Regional Productivity Growth in Finland
- 184 – Perception of Job Instability in Europe
- 180 – Balancing regional development: cross-subsidization promotes equality
- 178 – Sources of Job and Worker Flows: Evidence from a Panel of Regions
- 171 – Unravelling the Mystery of Regional Unemployment in Finland
- 170 – Overtime in Finland
- 168 – Change in the economic structure – a perspective on the upheaval of the 1990s
- 167 – Schumpeter and ‘creative destruction’
- 164 – Unemployment in Finland – a regional perspective
- 163 – A Selective Survey to the Literature on Job Creation and Destruction
- 162 – The Service Sector in Finland: A Nordic Lilliputian
- 157 – Determination of Average Working Time in Finland
- 153 – Labor Supply and Unemployment in the Regional Forecast
- 150 – Housing Demand in Finland. A Cross-Sectional Analysis Using the Wealth Survey 1994
- 149 – The Functioning of Housing Markets and the Adjustment of Labor Markets
- 148 – Has Work-sharing Worked in Finland?
- 146 – Employment in Finland 1960–1996
- 145 – Job Sharing and Employment
- 142 – Regional Evolutions in Finland
- 136 – Employment-Related Support System from Finland’s Perspective
- 131 – Employment Contracts, Organizational Structure, and Productivity
- 130 – International Experiences from Employment-Related Support Systems
- 128 – Long-term Unemployment in Denmark and Its Remedies