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Työpoliittinen aikakauskirja 4/2018
English Summaries
We analyse new job creation at the facility level in 2017. New job creation is compared to out-flow-replacing recruitment.
In 2017 gross job creation was 640 000. 43.9 % of recruitments were caused by new job crea- tion. The share is somewhat lower than in 2016, but higher than in 2015.
The number of labour shortage, i.e. jobs that could not be filled, was almost double the num- ber of 2016. Even though the situation is worse than in 2016, more new jobs were created in 2017 than in 2014-2016.
Recruitment differs by industry. In social and health care, the number of recruitments is very high but only a small share of new jobs are created. In the bioeconomy, the number of recruitments was 48 % higher than in 2016, but not much more new jobs were created.
New jobs are created in the corporate sec- tor and in establishments expecting personnel growth. Also hiring from abroad and changes in the number of personnel are related to new job creation. According to employers, the most important recruitment channel is the TE-office, and contacts to former employees or job-seek- ers are the second most important channel. The role of the TE-office is especially big in filling hard-to-fill vacancies.
In this article, we used narrative materi- als, gathered among seven entrepreneurs, to study the nature of their retirement process. Specifically, we explore the main source of income, typically used in retirement studies, or status-based operationalization and fit of the temporal model of bridge employment in entre- preneur retirement studies. Bridge employment refers to work after retirement. The research questions were as follows: 1) What types of retirement processes can be found among entre- preneurs, 2) what types of variation and diver- sity can be found in entrepreneur retirement processes, and 3) can bridge employment- type of employment patterns, proceeding from full employment, via bridge employment to full exit from working life and subsequent retirement, be identified in the entrepreneur retirement processes. Our study shows the complexity of the retirement processes and the difficulties the complexity causes when operationalizing and analyzing retirement with simple classifications and linear models.
Is entrepreneurship an effective way for increasing participation
in working life among people
with disabilities?
Patrik Tötterman, PhD., Senior officer, Ministry of Economic affairs and Employment
Leila Tauriainen, Master of Arts (Education), head of vocational and adult education division, Kiipula Foundation
The complexity of the entrepreneur´s retirement processes – the dynamics and operationalization of the t
ransition process
Anu Järvensivu, PhD, Adjunct Professor Gerontology Research Center, Faculty of Sport and Health sciences, University of Jyvaskyla
Monika E. von Bonsdorff, Professor and Academy of Finland Research Fellow
1 University of Vaasa, Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius
2 Gerontology Research Center, Faculty of Sport and Health sciences, University
of Jyvaskyla
This paper examines the extent of self-employ- ment among people with disabilities in Finland. Also per-ceived motivators and obstacles evalu- ated by both those already entrepreneurs or plan- ning entrepreneurial activity were investigated. We had two primarily independent data for this study. The first comprises from a random sample of 10,000 disability benefit receivers who were asked to fill in a questionnaire (N= 1,654).The second sample comprises from NGO volunteers (N=970). Comparing the EU-SILC statistics, the
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