Selected publications

Böckerman, P., Haapanen, M. & Jepsen, C. (2019). Back to School: Labor-market Returns to Higher Vocational Schooling. Labour Economics, 61, 101758. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537119300843

Böckerman, P., Cawley, J., Viinikainen, J., Lehtimäki, T., Rovio, S., Seppälä, I., Pehkonen, J. & Raitakari, O. (2019). The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes: An Application  of Genetic Instrumental Variables. Health Economics, 28:1, 65-77. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hec.3828

Böckerman, P., Kanninen, O. & Suoniemi, I. (2018). A Kink that Makes You Sick: The Effect of Sick Pay on Absence. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 33:4, 568-579. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jae.2620

Böckerman, P., Skedinger, P. & Uusitalo, R. (2018). Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages: Evidence from Multi-country Linked Employer-employee Data. Labour Economics, 51, 48-62. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537116301609

Böckerman, P., Bryson, A. & Ilmakunnas, P. (2013). Does High Involvement Management Lead to Higher Pay? Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 176:4, 861-885. https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-985X.2012.01075.x

Working Papers

• 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?
• 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
• 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?
• 196 – Is Variation in Hours of Work Driven by Supply or Demand? Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Industries
• 190 – Does Geography Play a Role in Takeovers?
• 191 – Who Bear the Burden of Wage Cuts? Evidence from Finland during the 1990s
• 189 – Working Hours and Labour Market Flows
• 186 – The Micro-level Sources of Regional Productivity Growth in Finland
• 178 – Sources of Job and Worker Flows: Evidence from a Panel of Regions
• 170 – Overtime in Finland, 2001
• 171 – Unravelling the Mystery of Regional Unemployment in Finland
• 157 – Determination of Average Working Time in Finland
• papers – The Service Sector in Finland: A Nordic Lilliputian
• 163 – A Selective Survey to the Literature on Job Creation and Destruction
• 142 – Regional Evolutions in Finland
• 148 – Has Work-sharing Worked in Finland?