Editing Finland (section)

===Public policy===
{{See also|Nordic model}}
[[File:Helsingborg 2013-05-18 (9028295238).jpg|thumb|Flags of the [[Nordic countries]] from left to right: Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Finland.]]
Finnish politicians have often emulated the Nordic model.<ref name="nordicmodel">[http://www.etla.fi/files/1892_the_nordic_model_complete.pdf The Nordic Model] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905212132/http://www.etla.fi/files/1892_the_nordic_model_complete.pdf |date=5 September 2012 }} by Torben M. Andersen, Bengt Holmström, Seppo Honkapohja, Sixten Korkman, Hans Tson Söderström, Juhana Vartiainen</ref> Nordics have been free-trading for over a century. The level of protection in commodity trade has been low, except for agricultural products.<ref name="nordicmodel" /> Finland is ranked 13th in the 2025 global [[Index of Economic Freedom]] and ninth in Europe.<ref name="freedom" /> According to the OECD, only four [[EU-15]] countries have less regulated [[product market]]s and only one has less regulated [[financial market]]s.<ref name="nordicmodel" /> The 2024 [[International Institute for Management Development|IMD]] World Competitiveness Yearbook ranked Finland 15th most [[Competitiveness|competitive]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Finland drops further in global competitiveness ranking |url=https://yle.fi/a/74-20097769 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612031526/http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/announcing.cfm |archive-date=12 June 2007 |access-date=28 March 2025 |publisher=yle.fi}}</ref> The [[World Economic Forum]] 2019 index ranked Finland the eleventh most competitive.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Global Competitiveness Report 2019 |url=https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_TheGlobalCompetitivenessReport2019.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619083349/http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%2BCompetitiveness%2BReport/index.htm |archive-date=19 June 2008 |access-date=28 March 2025 |publisher=[[World Economic Forum]]}}</ref>

The legal system is clear and business bureaucracy less than most countries.<ref name="freedom">{{cite web |title=Finland economy |url=https://static.heritage.org/index/pdf/2025/2025_indexofeconomicfreedom_finland.pdf |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629041208/http://www.heritage.org/index/country/Finland |archive-date=29 June 2011 |access-date=28 March 2025 |publisher=The Heritage Foundation}}</ref> Property rights are well protected and contractual agreements are strictly honoured.<ref name="freedom" /> Finland is rated the least corrupt country in the world in the [[Corruption Perceptions Index]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2012/results/ |title=Corruption Perceptions Index 2012 – Results |publisher=Transparency.org |access-date=12 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131129013918/http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2012/results/ |archive-date=29 November 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and 20th in the [[Ease of doing business index]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Ranking of economies – Doing Business – World Bank Group |url=https://archive.doingbusiness.org/en/data/doing-business-score |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915084658/http://www.doingbusiness.org/economyrankings/ |archive-date=15 September 2008 |access-date=28 March 2025 |work=doingbusiness.org}}</ref>

In Finland, [[Collective agreement#Finland|collective labour agreements]] are universally valid. These are drafted every few years for each profession and seniority level, with only a few jobs outside the system. The agreement becomes universally enforceable provided that more than 50% of the employees support it, in practice by being a member of a relevant trade union. The unionization rate is high (70%), especially in the middle class ([[AKAVA]], mostly for university-educated professionals: 80%).<ref name="nordicmodel" />