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    • The labour market impacts of a youth guarantee: lessons for Europe? 

      Tuomala, Juha; Hämäläinen, Kari; Hämäläinen, Ulla
      VATT Working Papers : 60 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 18.12.2014)
      This paper examines the youth guarantee programme introduced in Finland 2005. The reform consisted of early intervention, monitoring and individualized job search plans that guarantee activation measures for unemployed ...

    • Labour supply responses to reducing the risk of losing disability insurance benefits 

      Paukkeri, Tuuli; Ravaska, Terhi
      VATT Working Papers : 163 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 21.02.2024)
      We study whether disability insurance (DI) recipients increase their labour supply after the introduction of an automatic reinstatement policy, i.e. a programme mitigating the risk of losing eligibility for DI benefits due ...

    • Local Representation and Strategic Voting: Evidence from Electoral Boundary Reforms 

      Tukiainen, Janne; Saarimaa, Tuukka
      VATT Working Papers : 64 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 11.09.2015)
      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 ...

    • Long-Run Effects of Selective Schools on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes 

      Kanninen, Ohto; Kortelainen, Mika; Tervonen, Lassi
      VATT Working Papers : 161 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 13.12.2023)
      This paper analyzes the effects of selective schools on students’ educational and labor market outcomes. We utilize regression discontinuity design based on the centralized admission system of upper secondary schools in ...

    • Long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits for older workers 

      Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna
      VATT Working Papers : 89 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 31.05.2017)
      This paper examines the long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits that older unemployed can collect until retirement in Finland. We consider a reform that increased the age threshold of this scheme from 55 to 57 ...

    • The Loss of Production Work: Identification of Demand Shifts Based on Local Soviet Trade Shocks 

      Einiö, Elias
      VATT Working Papers : 61 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 25.03.2015)
      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 ...

    • Lost Boys: Access to Secondary Education and Crime 

      Huttunen, Kristiina; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; Virtanen, Hanna
      VATT Working Papers : 114 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 31.12.2018)
      We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by admission cut-offs to upper secondary schools in Finland. We combine data on school applications with ...

    • "Love Thy Neighbour"? The Effect of Income and Language Differences on Votes for Municipal Secessions 

      Lapointe, Simon
      VATT Working Papers : 107 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 16.04.2018)
      This paper studies voters' preferences on municipal borders in a setting with cohabiting linguistic communities. It takes advantage of unique data from referendum results in the Canadian province of Quebec in 2004, which ...

    • Matching inefficiencies, regional disparities and unemployment 

      Hynninen, Sanna-Mari; Kangasharju, Aki; Pehkonen, Jaakko
      VATT Working Papers : 4 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 28.05.2009)
      In this paper we apply a stochastic frontier approach to examine how matching efficiency and regional differences in structural factors contribute to regional and aggregate unemployment. Our results suggest that there would ...

    • Migration and tax policy: Evidence from Finnish full population data 

      Kalin, Salla; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Pirttilä, Jukka
      VATT Working Papers : 150 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 27.10.2022)
      While evidence on the impact of taxation on the international migration of certain special groups of workers has expanded, evidence on the links between taxes and migration of the general population is extremely limited. ...

    • Missing Miles: Evasion Responses to Car Taxes 

      Harju, Jarkko; Kosonen, Tuomas; Slemrod, Joel
      VATT Working Papers : 123 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 03.10.2019)
      We study a tax evasion response to car taxes in Finland, where used car importers overstate the mileage to reduce tax liability. First, we develop a tax evasion measure by comparing reported mileage upon import with ...

    • Mixing the Rich and Poor: The Impact of Peers on Education and Earnings 

      Einiö, Elias
      VATT Working Papers : 128 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 18.12.2019)
      This study exploits a large-scale natural experiment in Finnish conscription to study how exposure to peers from different family backgrounds affects education, earnings, employment, and hourly wage. Our research design ...

    • Modelling state dependence and feedback effects between poverty, employment and parental home emancipation among European youth 

      Ayllón, Sara
      VATT Working Papers : 10 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 30.10.2009)
      Youth is one of the phases in the life-cycle when some of the most decisive life transitions take place. Entering the labour market or leaving parental home are events with important consequences for the economic well-being ...

    • More haircut after VAT cut? On the efficiency of service sector consumption taxes 

      Kosonen, Tuomas
      VATT Working Papers : 49 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 26.09.2013)
      Consumption tax rates targeted at specific sectors are often reformed without empirical knowledge about the efficiency of these policies. This paper sheds light on the efficiency issue, the potential for welfare improving ...

    • Mortality Inequality in Finland 

      Huttunen, Kristiina; Lombardi, Stefano
      VATT Working Papers : 140 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 26.02.2021)
      We study inequality in mortality in Finland using registry data that covers the whole population for years 1990-2018. We create municipality-level indexes of regional deprivation (poverty rate), and show how age-specifc ...

    • Multinational firms and job tasks 

      Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik
      VATT Working Papers : 8 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 22.07.2009)
      We analyze the impact of multinational and foreign ownership on the demand for job tasks and educational skills. By using Swedish matched employer-employee data, we find that both foreign and domestic multinational firms ...

    • Multinationals, Competition and Productivity Spillovers through Worker Mobility 

      Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina; Sembenelli, Alessandro
      VATT Working Papers : 54 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 13.01.2014)
      Spillovers can arise when multinational firms (MNEs) train local employees who later join domestic firms, bringing with them part of the technological, marketing and managerial knowledge they have acquired. Fosfuri et al. ...

    • Non-linear dividend tax and dynamics of the firm 

      Kari, Seppo; Laitila, Jussi
      VATT Working Papers : 41 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 07.12.2012)
      This paper analyses the implications of a non-linear dividend tax in a life-cycle model of the firm. In the model new firms first enter markets, then grow, financing from retained earnings and finally distribute their ...

    • A Note on the Effects of Income-Splitting under Dual Income Tax 

      Kari, Seppo; Ropponen, Olli
      VATT Working Papers : 81 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 14.10.2016)
      This paper reconsiders the income-splitting rules of the Nordic dual income tax system, introduced to address the incentives to shift income between labor and capital income tax bases. These rules impute a return on equity, ...

    • A Note on the Robustness of Card and Krueger (1994) and Neumark and Wascher (2000) 

      Ropponen, Olli
      VATT Working Papers : 25 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 14.06.2011)
      This note adds to the discussion originating from David Card and Alan B. Krueger (1994; CK) and David Neumark and William Wascher (2000; NW). It re-evaluates their results by using the semiparametric difference-in-differences ...