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Long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits for older workers
(Elsevier, 2020)
This paper examines the long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits that older unemployed can receive until retirement in Finland. We consider a reform that increased the age threshold of this scheme from 55 to 57. ...
Optimal Patent Policy for Pharmaceutical Industry
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-05-20)
We show how characterizing optimal patent policy for the pharmaceutical industry only requires information about generic producers’ responses to changes in the effective duration and scope of new drug patents. To estimate ...
'Sticky' Policies—Three Country Cases on Long-Term Commitment and Rooting of RE Policy Goals
(MDPI, 2020)
Denmark, Germany, and Finland are countries that have emerged as technology leaders in key renewable energy fields—wind energy, solar power, and bioenergy. In this article, we dig into the policy trajectories of these ...
Discrete Labor Supply: Empirical Evidence and Implications
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-05-25)
We provide novel evidence of discrete labor supply responses to tax incentives and study the broader implications of discrete rather than continuous labor supply. We utilize an income notch and a reform that shifted the ...
Physician Prices and Competition: Evidence from Acquisitions in the Private Health Care Sector
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-04-30)
We consider the effects of mergers and acquisitions for private physicians, who compete for patients on price. To estimate the effects, we use nationwide administrative data on private physicians and the organization of ...
Monikansallisten yritysten voitonsiirto ja yhteisöveropohjan rapautuminen – kokoluokan arviointia kansainvälisen kirjallisuuden valossa
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-06-03)
Tässä muistiossa kartoitamme yritysten voitonsiirron vuoksi tapahtuvan yhteisöveropohjien rapautumisen suuruusluokkaa kirjallisuuden tarjoamien tulosten avulla. Lisäksi keskustelemme arvioiden taustalla olevista ...
In Sickness and in Health: Job Displacement and Health. Spillovers in Couples
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-06-09)
We study how a negative labor market shock like job loss generates health spillovers in couples. Using administrative data of all workers and firms matched to mortality and patient records, we document that male job ...
Fat Tails due to Variable Renewables and Insufficient Flexibility
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-06-10)
The large-scale integration of renewable energy sources requires flexibility from power markets in the sense that the latter should quickly counterbalance the renewable supply variation driven by weather conditions. Most ...
The effects of unemployment benefit duration: Evidence from residual benefit duration
(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 ...
Age at arrival, parents and neighborhoods: understanding the educational attainment of immigrants' children
(Oxford University Press, 2020)
This article documents how children of immigrants cope in early adulthood in Finland. We first show that, on average, they have dramatically lower educational attainment than children of natives do. This difference can be ...