Selaus nimekkeen mukaan kokoelmassa Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT
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Wage and Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers in Finland
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 422 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 25.05.2007)Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the cost of job displacement for private sector workers displaced in Finland during the years 1992 and 1997. Our main goal is to measure the ways in which involuntary ... -
Wage and Employment Discrimination by Gender in Labor Market Equilibrium
VATT Working Papers : 144 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 28.05.2021)This paper develops an equilibrium search model to study the mechanisms underlying the lifecycle gender wage gap: human capital accumulation, preference for job amenities, and employers’ statistical discrimination in wage ... -
Welfare Differentials and Inequality in the Finnish Labour Market over the 1990s Recession
VATT-tutkimuksia : 68 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 03.11.2000)Using a large panel of Finnish males, we study how the recession of the early 1990s hit different worker groups and affected inequality in the labour market. Despite large employment losses the cross-section dispersion of ... -
What Are the Benefits of the Water Framework Directive? Lessons Learned for Policy Design from Preference Revelation
Environmental and Resource Economics : 4 (Springer Verlag, 2017)The Water Framework Directive (WFD) seeks to achieve good ecological status of surface waters across the European Union by 2027. The WFD guidelines explicitly recognize the economics of water management by providing ... -
What are the benefits of the Water Framework Directive? Lessons learned for policy design from preference revelation
VATT Working Papers : 66 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 21.10.2015)The Water Framework Directive (WFD) seeks to achieve good ecological status of surface waters across the European Union by 2027. The WFD guidelines explicitly recognize the economics of water management by providing ... -
What Are the Priorities of Bureaucrats? Evidence from Conjoint Experiments with Procurement Officials.
EconPol Working Papers : 63 (ifo Institute, 31.03.2021)A well-functioning bureaucracy is a precondition for efficient public goods provision. However, bureaucratic decision-making is still largely seen as a black box. We provide novel insights into the preferences of bureaucrats ... -
What Draws People to Urban Growth Centers: Jobs vs. Pay?
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 310 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 25.06.2003)The present study analyses migration patterns in Finland to test if microeconomic evidence for the Harris-Todaro model can be found. The Harris-Todaro hypothesis states that rural-urban migration stems from regional ... -
What Goes Up May Not Come Down: Asymmetric Incidence of Value-Added Taxes
Journal of Political Economy : 12 (University of Chicago Press, 2020)This paper provides evidence that prices respond significantly more strongly to increases than to decreases in Value-Added Taxes (VATs). First, using two plausibly exogenous VAT changes, we show that prices respond twice ... -
What Kind of Job-broker is the Public Employment Service? Evidence from Finnish Job Vacancy Midrodata in 2002-2003
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 352 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 14.01.2005)This study analyses the job-broking function of the Finnish Public Employment Service (PES). The empirical analysis is based on the Finnish job vacancy microdata in 2002 and 2003 including information on over 320,000 job ... -
What Lies Behind the Unprecedented Increase in Income Inequality in Finland During the 1990's
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 247 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 27.02.2001)This study uses a decomposition analysis of income inequality by income groups and income sources to understand and explain the inequality increase in Finland during the 1990's. Several conclusions can be drawn from our ... -
What was actually cut in the barbers' VAT cut?
VATT Working Papers : 18 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 23.11.2010)The tax incidence of consumption taxes across various sectors of the economy is a key aspect when designing a tax structure. However, there are very few empirical findings on this subject. This paper studies the tax incidence ... -
What Will EU Membership and the Value-Added Tax Reform Do to Finnish Food Economy? - A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 88 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1995) -
When does money stick in education? Evidence from a kinked grant rule
VATT Working Papers : 102 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 22.01.2018)We study the effects of intergovernmental grants on school spending within the Finnish system of high school education funding. The system allocates lump-sum intergovernmental grants to local education organizers using a ... -
When does money stick in education? Evidence from a kinked grant rule
Education Finance and Policy : 4 (MIT Press, 2020)We study the effects of intergovernmental grants on school spending within the Finnish system of high school education funding. The system allocates lump-sum intergovernmental grants to local high school education providers ... -
When does Regression Discontinuity Design Work? Evidence from Random Election Outcomes
Quantitative Economics :2 (Open access) (Econometric Society, 2018)We use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between candidates are resolved via a lottery to study the personal incumbency advantage. We benchmark non-experimental RDD estimates against the estimate ... -
Which Consumers Benefit from Congestion Tolls?
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 216 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 17.03.2000)A large literature demonstrates that congestion tolls can increase aggregate welfare. Nevertheless, congestion tolls are rarely observed. And though road tolls are imposed to raise revenue (as on bridges, tunnels, and some ... -
Which income comparisons matter to people, and how? Evidence from a large field experiment
FIT Working Paper : 10 (Tampereen yliopisto, 10.05.2023)Received wisdom holds that income rank matters for life satisfaction. In much of the literature, however, income comparisons are limited to the national population and evidence is correlational. In this paper, we investigate ... -
Who Benefits from Public Housing?
VATT Working Papers : 68 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 17.12.2015)This paper studies how much public housing generates rent savings for the tenants, how these savings are distributed among the tenants, and whether the tenants reside in better quality neighborhoods than similar low-income ... -
Who Gains from Credited Forest Carbon Sinks: Finland and other Annex I Countries in Comparison
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 291 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 15.01.2003)In the Kyoto Protocol carbon sinks became a tool for releasing the economic burden of achieving the emission target. For Finland, credits from carbon sinks might be important since the amount of carbon sequestered in total ... -
Worker-level consequences of import shocks
VATT Working Papers : 74 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 16.05.2016)We analyse the effects of imports on employment and earnings by distinguishing between import competition in final products and firms' use of imports in production (offshoring). We use Finnish worker-firm data merged with ...
