Antti Saloniemi

• Professor at Tampere University

Artikkeli käsittelee kääntäjien työn muutosta ja kääntäjien toimijuuden mahdollisuuksia digitalisoituneessa ja alustoituvassa työssä. Kiinnostuksemme kohteena on kääntäjien oma ymmärrys käännöstyön muutoksen prosesseista. Miten ne vaikuttavat kääntämisen työprosessiin, asemaan työmarkkinoilla ja keinoihin, joilla kääntäjät pystyvät toimimaan oman a...

Tutkimme aktiivisten työvoimapoliittisten toimenpiteiden (palkkatuetun työn, kuntouttavan työtoiminnan, työkokeilun ja työvoimakoulutuksen) yhteyttä pitkäaikaistyöttömien hyvinvoinnin muutokseen. Hyvinvoinnin mittareina käytimme psyykkistä toimintakykyä (GHQ:ta) ja itsearvioitua terveyttä. Selittävät muuttujat olivat sukupuoli, ikä, perherakenne, k...

The aim of this article is to clarify the links between high-involvement management (HIM) practices, productivity and branches of industry. The data combine a representative survey ( N = 787) of private-sector firms in Finland and register-based firm-level data on sales per employee in the year following the survey. The authors analysed the data us...

This study explores young Finns’ transition pathways into education and work over a 9-year period (from the age of 18 to 26), with a special focus on difficulties with labour market attachment. The data were derived from national registers comprising all men (29,383) and women (27,784) born in 1987. Their labour market attachment was investigated u...

In this report, we have seen that platform work in the Nordic countries is still a marginal phenomenon. The platform-based business models for mediation of work have been established in particular industries providing favourable conditions for such arrangements. We have studied cases of platform work in the cleaning (Hilfr), personal transportation...

The connection between high-involvement management (HIM), entailing heavy employee involvement, and employee well-being is a controversial and widely discussed topic. Clarifying how job satisfaction and stress are connected to HIM and job control (the control employees have over their work), this study is based on data from two Finnish sources: an...

This collection of national background reports are produced as part of a pilot project on Nordic Labour Markets and the Sharing Economy funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers and organized by Fafo, Oslo. The aim of the pilot project was to facilitate Nordic information exchange and provide a better knowledge base for developing future Nordic stu...

This article investigates employees’ attitudes towards job protection legislation and attitudinal differences between employees with different levels of job security. National surveys from three Nordic countries, using different measures of insider–outsider positions in the labour market, do not support the assumption that outsiders (those with ins...

This article investigates employees’ attitudes towards job protection legislation and attitudinal differences between employees with different levels of job security. National surveys from three Nordic countries, using different measures of insider–outsider positions in the labour market, do not support the assumption that outsiders (those with ins...

This article describes how the flexicurity arrangement of low job security, high employment security, and good income security advocated by various authors affects the mental well-being of employees. Data are derived from a survey carried out in 2010–2011 among employees in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The main findings are that all three forms of...

This article describes how the flexicurity arrangement of low job security, high employment security, and good income security advocated by various authors affects the mental well-being of employees. Data are derived from a survey carried out in 2010–2011 among employees in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The main findings are that all three forms of...

Using survey data collected in 2010-2011, this article examines patterns of lock-in among employees in the Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish labour markets. Workers are defined as locked-in if they have considerable difficulty in finding an equally good job with some other employer. Empirically we measure the concept by means of the employees' own ass...

There is increasing pressure to develop services to enhance the health of the workforce on the periphery of the labour market. Health promotion among unemployed people may improve their health but also to increase their employability. We tested whether re-employment can be enhanced with a health care intervention targeted at the unemployed. A 3-yea...

In this study we investigate the effects of active labour market policy measures on health and well-being and how these effects are connected with socioeconomic status. The data were collected among the participants (n = 212) in 24 conventional vocational training courses in Finland. According to the results, training was accompanied by improvement...

Health care research has been more interested in identifying reasons why people do not participate in health interventions than in trying to understand the reasons why they do. This study examined how unemployed people position themselves with regard to a new health service which was set up as part of an institutional strategy for delivering and en...

One of the most remarkable changes in the labour markets of industrialised countries has been the increase of fixed-term employment. Naturally, the ways in which this development impacts on the quality of working life has awoken increasing scientific discussion. The aim of this paper is to examine these connections from the perspective of occupatio...

This study explores occupational health nurses' encounters with unemployed clients in Finland. It involved setting up and evaluating a new service, Career Health Care, that resembled occupational health care, except that clients were recruited from among job seekers who were participating in one of three active labour market policy measures: vocati...

This study investigated the effect of a fixed-term job contract on encounters of violence at work. We assumed that fixed-term employees encountered more violence or threats of violence at their work than permanent employees. This study is based on 3 large statistical data sets: (a) the Work and Health surveys carried out by the Finnish Institute of...

In this comparative study of Finland and Canada, we use representative data to examine work environments in fixed-term and permanent jobs. Results are similar for all workers regardless of whether they are employed on fixed-term or permanent contracts. All workers feel their working hours are inflexible, but feel they have control over the tasks th...

Increasing levels of non-permanent employment have raised concern about quality of working life in the public sector. This Finnish study examines whether the public sector can be characterized as a ‘model employer’ with regard to the working conditions and well-being of fixed-term employees. Compared to the private sector, the difference in the phy...

Our concern in this article is to shed light on the relationship between temporary employment and the quality of working life. We analyze empirical data from Finnish working life in the late 1990s, asking whether fixed-term employment poses a threat to the quality of the psychosocial work environment. This study was carried out in eight towns parti...

Relationships between employment type and the physical work environment were studied among blue-collar workers (n = 1,127). Based on survey data, we set out to compare the evaluations of environmental load and physical strain at work given by fixed-term (17% of all) and permanent workers. The type of employment was not related to environmental load...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of supervised physical activity intervention on the health and functional capacity of unemployed men. The subjects were 76 unemployed construction workers between the ages of 22 and 54 years. They were randomized into two groups, a physical activity group ( n =40) and a control group ( n =36). Due t...

English summary: Construction, structures and safety at work. Väitösk. -- Tampereen yliopisto.