Mainstream income support and employment services and their effectiveness for displaced workers in Finland

This chapter looks at the structure of mainstream income support and employment services in Finland and their impact for displaced workers. Finland does not provide any special schemes or measures for displaced workers and relatively little is known about the use and effectiveness of mainstream benefits and programmes for this group. General evidence suggests that older and low-skilled unemployed benefit the least from employment support and are at the highest risk of becoming long-term unemployed. The structure of passive and active support provided in Finland contributes to this finding. The chapter makes suggestions on how the benefit system and the operations of the public employment service could be changed to help more people in a better way.