Selaus nimekkeen mukaan kokoelmassa Vertaisarvioidut artikkelit (Peer-reviewed articles)

    • Tax planning and investment responses to dividend taxation 

      Koivisto, Aliisa
      International Tax and Public Finance : Published online (Springer Nature, 16.04.2024)
      This study explores empirically how business owners respond to dividend taxes in a range of different margins including tax planning and investment. Using administrative tax data on all privately held Finnish corporations, ...
    • Technology, labour market institutions and early retirement 

      Yashiro, Naomitsu; Kyyrä, Tomi; Hwang, Hyunjeong; Tuomala, Juha
      Economic Policy : Available online (Oxford University Press, 2022)
      There are two important barriers to increasing the employment of older workers under rapid technological change. First, older workers engaged in codifiable, routine tasks are particularly prone to the risk of being displaced ...
    • The effect of compulsory face mask policies on community mobility in Germany 

      Kovacs, Roxanne; Dunaiski, Maurice; Tukiainen, Janne
      The Scandinavian Journal of Economics : 4 (Open access) (Wiley, 11.10.2023)
      There is an ongoing debate about face masks being made compulsory in public spaces to contain COVID-19. A key concern is that such policies could undermine efforts to maintain social distancing and reduce mobility. We ...
    • The effects of corporate taxes on small firms 

      Harju, Jarkko; Koivisto, Aliisa; Matikka, Tuomas
      Journal of Public Economics : Open access (Elsevier, 2022)
      We study the impact of corporate taxes on firm-level investments and business activity by exploiting a 6 percentage-point reduction in the corporate tax rate in 2012–2014 in Finland. We use detailed administrative data and ...
    • The effects of employers’ disability and unemployment insurance costs on benefit inflows 

      Kyyrä, Tomi; Tuomala, Juha
      Labour Economics : Available online (Open access) (Elsevier, 19.08.2023)
      In Finland, large firms are partially liable for the costs of disability and unemployment benefits paid to their former workers. To estimate the effects of such cost liabilities, we exploit a reform that extended this ...
    • The Effects of Supporting Local Business: Evidence from the UK 

      Einiö, Elias; Overman, Henry G.
      Regional Science and Urban Economics : Open access (Elsevier, 2020)
      This paper assesses the effects of a significant place-based intervention that targeted local businesses in deprived areas in the UK. To gain identification, we use data at a fine spatial scale and a regression discontinuity ...
    • The Effects of UI Benefits on Unemployment and Subsequent Outcomes: Evidence from a Kinked Benefit Rule 

      Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna
      Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics : 5 (Wiley, 2020)
      This paper analyses the effects of unemployment insurance benefits on unemployment exits and subsequent labour market outcomes. We exploit a piecewise linear relationship between the previous wage and benefits in Finland ...
    • The effects of unemployment assistance on unemployment exits 

      Kyyrä, Tomi
      International Tax and Public Finance (Springer, 09 / 2022)
      Many countries have a two-tiered unemployment compensation system that provides earnings-related unemployment insurance for a limited period of time and less generous unemployment assistance thereafter. This study evaluates ...
    • The effects of unemployment benefit duration: Evidence from residual benefit duration 

      Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna
      Labour Economics : Available online (Elsevier, 2020)
      We examine the effects of unemployment benefit duration in Finland. Although the maximum duration is the same for all unemployed, potential benefit duration at the beginning of unemployment spells varies, because only ...
    • The effects of using participatory working time scheduling software on sickness absence: A difference-in-differences study 

      Turunen, Jarno; Karhula, Kati; Ropponen, Annina; Koskinen, Aki; Hakola, Tarja; Puttonen, Sampsa; Hämäläinen, Kari; Pehkonen, Jaakko; Härmä, Mikko
      International Journal of Nursing Studies : Available online (Elsevier, 2020)
      Background Participatory working time scheduling is a collaborative approach to scheduling shift work. As a potential way of improving work time control, it may provide a means to reducing sickness absence in shift work. ...
    • The elasticity of taxable income and income-shifting: what is “real” and what is not? 

      Harju, Jarkko; Matikka, Tuomas
      International Tax and Public Finance : 4 (Springer Verlag, 2016)
      Previous literature shows that income taxation significantly affects the behavior of high-income earners and business owners. However, it is still unclear how much of the response is due to changes in real economic activity, ...
    • The environmental Kuznets curve at different levels of economic development: a counterfactual quantile regression analysis for CO2 emissions 

      Yaduma, Natina; Kortelainen, Mika; Wossink, Ada
      Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy : 3 (Taylor & Francis, 2015)
      This paper applies the quantile fixed effects technique in exploring the CO2 environmental Kuznets curve within two groups of economic development (OECD and non-OECD countries) and six geographical regions – West, East ...
    • The Evolution of Social Mobility: Norway during the Twentieth Century 

      Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sarvimäki, Matti
      The Scandinavian Journal of Economics : 1 (Wiley, 2017)
      We document trends in social mobility in Norway using intergenerational income elasticities, the associations between the income percentiles of fathers and sons, and brother correlations. The results of all approaches ...
    • The heterogeneous incidence of fuel carbon taxes: Evidence from station-level data 

      Harju, Jarkko; Kosonen, Tuomas; Laukkanen, Marita; Palanne, Kimmo
      Journal of Environmental Economics and Management : Open Access (Elsevier, 2022)
      We use station-level price data and a significant diesel-fuel carbon tax reform to study who bears the economic burden of fuel carbon taxes. We use a difference-in-differences strategy to estimate the pass-through of the ...
    • The Impact of Forced Migration on Mortality: A Cohort Study of 242,075 Finns from 1939–2010 

      Haukka, Jari; Suvisaari, Jaana; Sarvimäki, Matti; Martikainen, Pekka
      Epidemiology : 4 (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2017)
      Background: The stresses and life changes associated with migration may have harmful long-term health effects, especially for mental health. These effects are exceedingly difficult to establish, because migrants are typically ...
    • The impact of wind power and electricity demand on the relevance of different short-term electricity markets: The Nordic case 

      Spodniak, Petr; Ollikka, Kimmo; Honkapuro, Samuli
      Applied Energy : Open Access (Elsevier, 2021)
      Electricity wholesale markets are undergoing rapid transformation due to the increasing shares of variable renewable energy sources. We therefore asked whether trading activity is shifting from the traditionally dominant ...
    • The indirect effect of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination on healthcare workers’ unvaccinated household members 

      Salo, Jussipekka; Hägg, Milla; Kortelainen, Mika; Leino, Tuija; Saxell, Tanja; Siikanen, Markku; Sääksvuori, Lauri
      Nature Communications : 13, Open Access (Nature Research, 03 / 2022)
      Mass vaccination is effective in reducing SARS-CoV-2 infections among vaccinated individuals. However, it remains unclear how effectively COVID-19 vaccines prevent people from spreading the virus to their close contacts. ...
    • The intergenerational effects of parental higher education: Evidence from changes in university accessibility 

      Suhonen, Tuomo; Karhunen, Hannu
      Journal of Public Economics (Elsevier, 2019)
      We examine the causal relationship between the educational attainment of parents and that of their children using quasi-experimental variation from changes in parents' access to university generated by the geographical ...
    • The labor market in Finland, 2000–2018 

      Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna
      IZA World of Labor (IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 2020)
      Finland's population is aging rapidly by international comparison. The shrinking working-age population means that the burden of increasing pension and health care expenditures is placed on a smaller group of employed ...
    • The local economic impacts of regeneration projects: Evidence from UK's Single Regeneration Budget 

      Gibbons, Stephen; Overman, Henry; Sarvimäki, Matti
      Journal of Urban Economics : Available online (Elsevier, 2020)
      We study the local economic impacts of a major UK regeneration programme aimed at enhancing the quality of life in deprived neighbourhoods. Our identification strategies include: a) exploiting the fine spatial scale of our ...