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The Effects of Unemployment Assistance on Unemployment Exits
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-03-19)
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 ...
Wage and Employment Discrimination by Gender in Labor Market Equilibrium
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-05-28)
This paper develops an equilibrium search model to study the mechanisms underlying the lifecycle gender wage gap: human capital accumulation, preference for job amenities, and employers’ statistical discrimination in wage ...
The Corona Crisis and Household Income: The Case of a Generous Welfare State
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-02-04)
Using a microsimulation approach, this paper evaluates the distributional consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in Finland. We use up-to-date administrative data on incomes and employment developments in 2020 at the entire ...
Removing Welfare Traps: Employment Responses in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-03-17)
This paper provides evidence that replacing minimum unemployment benefits with a basic income of equal size has minor employment effects at best. We examine an experiment in Finland in which 2,000 benefit recipients were ...
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 ...
Technology, Labour Market Institutions and Early Retirement: Evidence from Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-12-23)
There are two major barriers to increasing employment of older workers. First, older workers engaged in codifiable, routine tasks are particularly prone to the risk of being displaced by computers and robots. Second, several ...