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Parempi tapa valita korkeakouluopiskelijat
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2016-04-21)
Korkeakoulujen opiskelijavalintaa tulee uudistaa niin, ettei itselle mieluisimpaan paikkaan hakeminen vähennä hakijan mahdollisuuksia päästä muihin paikkoihin. Ylioppilasarvosanoihin, keskitettyyn hakurekisteriin ja ...
Entrepreneurs and income-shifting: Empirical evidence from a Finnish tax reform
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-01-14)
This study examines the extent of direct tax avoidance through income-shifting between wages and dividends, and approximates the deadweight loss due to this behavior for the owners of privately held corporations. The dual ...
Does experience rating reduce disability inflow?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-04-25)
This study explores whether the experience rating of employers' disability insurance premiums affects the inflow of older employees to disability benefits in Finland. To identify the causal effect of experience rating, we ...
The impact of tax incentives on the economic activity of entrepreneurs
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-01-10)
Based on existing evidence, we know little about how the taxation of small business owners affects their economic activity. This paper studies the effect of two Finnish tax reforms, in 1997 and 1998, on the effort decisions ...
Seat competitiveness and redistricting: Evidence from voting on municipal mergers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-03-24)
We analyze how (anticipated) changes in the competitiveness of the seats of municipal councilors affect their voting behavior over municipal mergers. The competitiveness of the seats changes because the merger changes the ...
The Loss of Production Work: Identification of Demand Shifts Based on Local Soviet Trade Shocks
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-03-25)
This paper examines changes in the structure of labor demand in panel data on Finnish manufacturing plants. I exploit general equilibrium effects on unit labor costs in local labor markets induced by the 1990 collapse of ...
Local Representation and Strategic Voting: Evidence from Electoral Boundary Reforms
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-09-11)
We analyze whether voters value local political representation by exploiting municipal mergers, which increase the number of candidates available to voters and intensify political competition. In the Finnish open-list ...
Effects of minimum bid increment in internet auctions: Evidence from a field experiment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-02-15)
I study the role of minimum bid increments (MBI) in internet auctions using natural field experiment
data from a Finnish online auction site Huuto.net. Internet auctions are typically viewed as secondprice,
implying truthful ...
Worker-level consequences of import shocks
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-05-16)
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 ...
Taxable Income Elasticity and the Anatomy of Behavioral Response: Evidence from Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2014-02-11)
This paper uses extensive Finnish panel data from 1995–2007 to analyze the elasticity of taxable income (ETI). I use individual changes in flat municipal income tax rates as an instrument for the overall changes in marginal ...