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Is Little Brother Nothing but Trouble?: Educational Attainment, Returns to Schooling and Sibling Structure
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-04-15)
Family effects on an individual's labor market success have been studied by economists and sociologists. The consensus is that background matters to educational and labor market performance, but it is not clear how and ...
Social Capital and Economic Growth Revisited
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-06-09)
Social capital facilitates cooperation in the society. High level of social capital promotes economic efficiency by lowering transaction costs. Trust towards strangers and low level of corruption are examples of high level ...
The Factors Affecting the Use of Elderly Care and the Need for Resources by 2030 in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-06-18)
A nation-wide interview survey data is used to analyse by means of ordered logit models the impacts of age, dependency and other factors on probabilities to use home and community care for the elderly. With these models ...
Työn, pääoman ja kulutuksen verorasituksen mittaaminen
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-02-21)
Tässä tutkimuksessa esitellään ja arvioidaan erilaisia tapoja mitata työn, pääoman ja kulutuksen verotuksen todellista tasoa eri maissa. Tarkastelun kohteena ovat makrotason aineistoista laskettavat keskimääräiset veroasteet ...
Do Wage-subsidies Increase Employment in Firms?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-05-19)
The literature evaluating active labour market programmes concentrates on the subsequent labour market performance of the unemployed work force that has undergone training or has spent a certain period in a subsidised job. ...
Education and Unemployment: State Dependence in Unemployment Among Young People in the 1990s
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-08-21)
This study examines the labour market careers of young people who finished their studies or left compulsory schooling in 1988. The main issue of interest is the impact of past unemployment on current unemployment. The ...
How to Cope with Labour Market Policy Tools in Economic Downturn: Finnish Evidence
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-05-19)
This paper discusses the Finnish experiences of Active Labour Market Policy (ALMP) across the economic cycle, especially in economic downturn. Cuts in unemployment spell duration have been the main factors to contribute ...
Snedvridande beskattning av utländska investeringar: reell och finansiell aktivitet inducerad av skattearbitrage
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-04-08)
Kirjoitus tarkastelee eriävistä kansallisista verojärjestelmistä muodostuvan kansainvälisen verotuksen vaikutuksia monikansallisen yrityksen päätöksiin. Analyyttisenä lähtökohtana on verojen kapitalisoitumishypoteesi, joka ...
What Draws People to Urban Growth Centers: Jobs vs. Pay?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-06-25)
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 ...
The Determinants of Unemployment Duration by Gender in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-11-24)
This paper models unemployment durations for men and women in Finland using a nationally representative data set from 1997. We begin with a baseline model where durations are modelled using a single risk discrete time ...