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The Effects of Employers' Disability and Unemployment Insurance Costs on Benefit Inflows
VATT Working Papers : 152 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 20.12.2022)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 costs, we exploit a reform that extended this cost-sharing ... -
The effects of employers’ disability and unemployment insurance costs on benefit inflows
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 Price Regulation on Pharmaceutical Expenditure and Availability
VATT Working Papers : 157 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 04.10.2023)Quasi-experimental evidence on the effectiveness of price regulation policies in curbing pharmaceutical expenditure is scarce. We analyze widely utilized generic substitution and reference price policies using data from ... -
The Effects of Relative School Starting Age on Educational Outcomes in Finland
VATT Working Papers : 84 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 21.04.2017)In Finland, children start school during the calendar year they turn seven years old. This creates a discontinuous jump in school starting age. I utilize a regression discontinuity design and rich register data to study ... -
The Effects of Supporting Local Business: Evidence from the UK
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 tax-deductible reserves on investment incentives
VATT Working Papers : 93 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 18.08.2017)This paper investigates how tax-deductible reserves affect the incentive to invest. We consider two different variants: a periodization reserve (PER), which allows the firm to defer tax payments for a certain number of ... -
The effects of UI benefits on unemployment and subsequent outcomes: Evidence from a kinked benefit rule
VATT Working Papers : 82 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 12.12.2016)This paper analyzes the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on unemployment exits and subsequent labor market outcomes. We exploit a piecewise linear relationship between the previous wage and UI benefits in ... -
The Effects of UI Benefits on Unemployment and Subsequent Outcomes: Evidence from a Kinked Benefit Rule
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
VATT Working Papers : 143 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 19.03.2021)Many countries have a two-tiered unemployment compensation system which provides earnings-related unemployment insurance for a limited period of time and less generous unemployment assistance thereafter. This study evaluates ... -
The effects of unemployment assistance on unemployment exits
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
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
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?
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
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
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 expected economic impacts of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement in Finland
VATT Research Reports : 187 (VATT Institute for Economic Research, 05.12.2017)The CETA agreement aims to remove especially various non-tariff measures (NTMs) on trade and investment stemming from regulatory practices, in addition to the nearly full elimination of tariffs between the EU and Canada. ... -
The heterogeneous incidence of fuel carbon taxes: Evidence from station-level data
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 energy tax refunds on manufacturing firm performance: evidence from Finland’s 2011 energy tax reform
Publication series of the Government’s analysis, assessment and research activitiesValtioneuvoston selvitys- ja tutkimustoiminnan julkaisusarja : 2019:32 (Prime Minister’s OfficeValtioneuvoston kanslia, 29.04.2019)Finland’s 2011 energy tax reform increased excise taxes on energy. The tax increase raised concerns about competitiveness of the manufacturing sector, and in the beginning of 2012 a pre-existing tax exemption to manufacturing ... -
The Impact of Forced Migration on Mortality: A Cohort Study of 242,075 Finns from 1939–2010
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 mortgage regulation on homeownership and household leverage: Evidence from Finland's LTV reform
VATT Working Papers : 148 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 12.10.2022)This paper examines the impact of a limit on loan-to-value (LTV) ratios implemented in Finland in 2016. Focusing on households that buy an apartment for the first time, we evaluate how the regulation influenced household ...
