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    • Essays on behavioral responses to income taxes 

      Matikka, Tuomas
      VATT Publications : P68 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 03.12.2014)
      This dissertation consists of an introductory chapter and four empirical essays on behavioral responses to income tax incentives. The introductory chapter presents the conceptual background of the welfare analysis of income ...

    • Essays on Finnish Municipal Finance and Intergovernmental Grants 

      Moisio, Antti
      VATT-tutkimuksia : 93 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 08.11.2002)
      This PhD thesis is a collection of studies on Finnish municipal expenditures, revenues and intergovernmental grants. The main purpose of the study was to analyse the municipal expenditure variation between the matching ...

    • Essays on globalization - Policies in trade, development, resources and climate change 

      Kerkelä, Leena
      VATT Publications : P50 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 26.03.2009)
      This research study on globalization consists of an introduction on the methodology applied, a summary and four independent essays focussing on applied policy research in international trade. The study follows the CGE ...

    • Essays on income inequality, poverty and the evolution of top income shares 

      Riihelä, Marja
      VATT Publications : P52 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 22.05.2009)
      This dissertation on income inequality in Finland consists of an introduction and four self-contained essays on trends in the share of top incomes, economic poverty, regional income inequality and tax progressivity. In all ...

    • Essays on International Trade and Tax Policy in Vertically Related Markets 

      Holm, Pasi
      VATT-tutkimuksia : 18 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1994)

    • Essays on labour demand and wage formation 

      Korkeamäki, Ossi
      VATT Publications : P60 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.02.2012)
      The first essay in this thesis is on gender wage differentials among manufacturing sector white-collar workers. The wage differential is decomposed into firm, job (within-firm) and individual-level components. Job-level ...

    • Essays on Labour Taxation and Unemployment Insurance 

      Sinko, Pekka
      VATT-tutkimuksia : 111 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 20.07.2004)
      The study consists of four essays, which analyse the implications of labour taxation and unemployment insurance (UI) in the models of imperfectly competitive labour markets. The first essay studies the effects of labour ...

    • Essays on migration 

      Sarvimäki, Matti
      VATT Publications : P51 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 12.03.2009)
      This dissertation consists of four empirical essays and an introductory chapter on the economics of migration. The first two essays study the long- term effects of relocating 11% of the Finnish population after the World ...

    • Essays on public economics 

      Paukkeri, Tuuli
      VATT Publications : P72 (VATT Institute for Economic Research and Aalto University, 04.06.2018)
      This doctoral thesis is a collection of four essays in public economics that look at various public policies and their impacts on low-income and otherwise vulnerable individuals. The essays share the general aim of studying ...

    • Essays on taxation – Evidence from tax reforms 

      Harju, Jarkko
      VATT Publications : P64 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 27.11.2013)
      This dissertation consists an introductory chapter and four empirical essays on the taxation of firms and individuals. The first essay concentrates on how the Finnish tax reform of 2005 affected voluntary pension plan ...

    • Essays on the efficiency of schools and student achievement 

      Kirjavainen, Tanja
      VATT Publications : P53 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 17.08.2009)
      This thesis consists of five essays that investigate the efficiency differences of schools, explain the differences in efficiency and student achievement and take a further step by looking inside schools with differing ...

    • Essays on Timber Supply and Forest Taxation 

      Ollikainen, Markku
      VATT-tutkimuksia : 33 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1996)
      By using the two-period model, this study analyzes the effects of forest taxation on the short-term timber supply of nonindustrial private forest owners. The study consists of three separate articles and a note that have ...

    • Essays on work and fertility 

      Kellokumpu, Jenni
      VATT Publications : P69 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 04.02.2015)
      This dissertation consists of four empirical essays all related to children and parents' labor supply, earnings and income in Finland. In the essays the problem of unobserved heterogeneity has been attacked in various ways. ...

    • Esseitä verouudistusten vaikutuksista 

      Harju, Jarkko
      Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja : 1/2014 (Taloustieteellinen yhdistys, 20.02.2014)
      Väitöksen ensimmäisessä artikkelissa tutkitaan sitä, miten vuonna 2005 Suomessa toteutettu verouudistus vaikutti vapaaehtoisiin eläkevakuutuksiin eli miten yksilöiden säästämiskäyttäytyminen uudistuksen vaikutuksesta ...

    • Estimating Equilibrium Search Models from Finnish Data 

      Kyyrä, Tomi
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 256 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 31.05.2001)
      Empirical equilibrium search models have attracted a growing interest in recent years. Estimation of such models has not been completely successful, however. This has led researchers to develop more sophisticated versions ...

    • Estimating tax gaps in Zambia - A bottom-up approach based on audit assessments 

      Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; Koivisto, Aliisa; Lungu, Eliya; Mwale, Evaristo; Msoni, Jonathan; Musole, Kangwa
      WIDER Working Paper : 2023/25 (UNU-WIDER, 01.02.2023)
      Assessing tax gaps—the difference between the potential and actual taxes raised—plays a vital role in achieving positive domestic revenue objectives through improved and reformed taxation. This is particularly pertinent ...

    • Estimating the effects of potential benefit duration without variation in the maximum duration of unemployment benefits 

      Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna
      VATT Working Papers : 87 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 31.05.2017)
      This paper examines the effects of unemployment benefit duration in Finland. To overcome the problem that the maximum duration of benefits is the same for all unemployed we exploit two observations. First, despite the ...

    • The estimation of LES demand elasticities for CGE models 

      Jussila, Mira; Tamminen, Saara; Kinnunen, Jouko
      VATT Working Papers : 39 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 20.09.2012)
      Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models require external parameters for proper estimations and can be relatively sensitive to the elasticity estimates used in them. We estimate LES demand elasticities and Frisch ...

    • Estonia and Finland - A Retrospective Socioenonomic Comparison 

      Lugus, Olev; Vartia, Pentti
      VATT-tutkimuksia : 15 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1993)

    • EU-Enlargement and Beyond: A Simulation Study on EU and Russia Integration 

      Sulamaa, Pekka; Widgrén, Mika
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 356 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 16.12.2004)
      This paper examines the economic effects of the opening of the Russian Federation. The analysis carried out in the paper is two-fold. First we simulate the impact of the eastern enlargement of the EU and, second, we analyse ...