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English summariesWhat themes has the Finnish Labour Review discussed during its 60 years?Heikki Räisänen, Dr. Pol. Sc., Adjunct Professor, Research Director, Ministry of Economic Afairs and EmploymentSixty years´ history of the Finnish Labour Review means already generations´ work input. During this anniversary, we reviewed the themes discussed in the publication in detail in order to consider, which will be the themes for the coming years.The review has been published under three diferent names by four diferent Ministries. Between 1957–61 the names “Tiedoituksia” and “Työmarkkinakatsaus” were used by the Ministry of Transportation and public works. The name of the publication was changed as “Työvoimakatsaus” (Manpower Outlook) in 1962. The new Ministry of Manpower Afairs continued publishing it between 1970 and 1989. The new Ministry of Labour was founded and the name of the publication was changed as “Työpoliittinen aikakauskirja” (Finnish Labour Review) in 1990. The Ministry of Economic Afairs and Employment has continued publish-ing the Review on quarterly basis. The frst themes included short-term employ-ment forecasts, especially forestry work was an important issue. From the beginning, Labour sta-tistics were developed side by side with the pub-lication. The Ministry was frst responsible for developing the Labour Force Survey in Finland, before it was turned on the responsibility of the current Statistics Finland. International themes were very well represented in the publication, e.g. in forecasts, OECD strategies, ILO activities and Nordic issues. Also the theme of economic growth was important via developing the manu-facturing sector and investments. Active Labour Market Policy was the ideological background for founding the new Ministry of Manpower Afairs in 1970. The themes of labour market policies were widened and deepened. The new publica-tion had a journal format. Later, emigration to Sweden was in important theme for many years. The new Ministry of Labour was founded in 1989 and the publication continued with wider work-ing life themes, as the former labour market and employment issues continued to be important topics. The economic and employment crisis of the 1990s was a catalyt for rich research in this feld, which increased the supply of research arti-cles for the Review. In 2008, the new Ministry of Economic Afairs and Employment was founded and the themes included more and more work-ing life issues and innovation policy connec-tions. Also the labour market institutions and employment issues were often discussed in the Review, but as the fnancing of labour market policy research was relatively poor, this was also visible in the supply of articles for the Review.