Higher education boosts monthly earnings, says staff body

Federation of Trade Unions professional and managerial staff in Finland, according to the youth that education really pays off, amid fears that the debate about unemployment and the lack of clarity of the general concepts of reality, writes Alexei Teivainen of Helsinki Times.

"Less than 7% of those with a postgraduate diploma are unemployed, while 12.5% ​​of the labor force entirely unemployed. People educated considerably more likely to see even a short period of unemployment than they are to be used for the duration of their lives professional, "Ida Mielityinen, an expert at the Federation of trade unions of professional and administrative staff or rewarded, points out in a press release.

"The monthly income of the people who suffer from degrees of higher education (including bachelor's degrees) is 1100 € (US $ 1,240) higher than those of the average wage-earner," it states, citing data on the structure of earnings released by the Bureau of Statistics Finland in 2014.