📍Tampere University, City Centre Campus, Linna Building
More information about the venue and rooms will be published here later.
9.00 – 11.00 – Open research seminar on Labour Market Policies – three parallel sessions (Linna, K106, K108, K109)
11.00 – 12.00 – Lunch Break
12.00 – 16.30 – Closing seminar of the Kone Foundation project Employment and Social Security Careers of the Population out of Labour Force (📍Tampere University, City Centre Campus, Linna Building, Väinö)
12.00 – 13.45 – Session 1 – Conditionality of Employment Benefits
- Research talks
- Satu Pyöriä, Tampere University: Back to Basics: Skills Investment in Active Labour Market Policy?
- Niklas Mäkinen, Tampere University: Benefit Sanctions and Techniques of Conditionality in Activation Policy
- Jaakko Harkko, Tampere University: Do Unemployment Benefit Sanctions Hinder the Employment Prospects of Vulnerable Job Seekers?
- Lauri Mäkinen, Kela: Reducing the Basic Amount in Social Assistance: Conditions, Prevalence and Effects
- Panel I: Conditionality of Employment Benefits (Audience Q&A)
- Chair: Antti Halmetoja (Tampere University) ; Guests: Paula Saikkonen (THL – Finnish Institute For Health and Wellbeing), Signe Jauhiainen (Kela – Social Insurance Institution of Finland), Lotta Haikkola (Finnish Youth Research Society), Silja Uusikangas (KEHA centre), Ari-Matti Näätänen (SAK – Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions)
13.45 – 14.15 – Coffee Break
14.15 – 16.30 – Session 2 – Minorities in Labour Market: Pathways and Services
- Research talks
- Jussi Partanen, Tampere University: Labour market pathways after unemployment among younger and older age groups
- Henry Saarinen, The Ami Foundation: Frontline Customer Service in Municipal Employment Services: Continuity or Change
- Quivine Ndomo, University of Jyväskylä: Integration as Individual Burden: The flawed logic of Finland’s migrant policy reforms
- Panel II: Minorities in Labour Market: Pathways and Services (Audience Q&A)
- Chair: Satu Pyöriä (Tampere University) ; Guests: Sonja Meyer (Wellbeing Services County of Pirkanmaa), Hanna Rajakoski (Employment Services of the Municipality of Hämeenkyrö); Jarkko Eloranta (SAK – Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions), Peer Haataja (Tampere Chamber of Commerce), Elina Pylkkänen (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment in Finland)