Selaus nimekkeen mukaan kokoelmassa Vertaisarvioidut artikkelit (Peer-reviewed articles)
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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 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 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 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 intergenerational effects of parental higher education: Evidence from changes in university accessibility
Journal of Public Economics (Elsevier, 2019)We examine the causal relationship between the educational attainment of parents and that of their children using quasi-experimental variation from changes in parents' access to university generated by the geographical ... -
The labor market in Finland, 2000–2018
IZA World of Labor (IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 2020)Finland's population is aging rapidly by international comparison. The shrinking working-age population means that the burden of increasing pension and health care expenditures is placed on a smaller group of employed ... -
The local economic impacts of regeneration projects: Evidence from UK's Single Regeneration Budget
Journal of Urban Economics : Available online (Elsevier, 2020)We study the local economic impacts of a major UK regeneration programme aimed at enhancing the quality of life in deprived neighbourhoods. Our identification strategies include: a) exploiting the fine spatial scale of our ... -
The Role of Fisheries in Optimal Eutrophication Management
Water Economics and Policy : 2 (World Scientific Publishing, 2017)We analyze dynamically optimal eutrophication management using two controls, targeted fishing and reduction of external nutrient loads. Fishing removes nutrients from the water ecosystem, and the size of the fish stock ... -
The role of information in tax compliance: Evidence from a natural field experiment
Economics Letters (Elsevier, 2015)This paper studies how much firms make unintentional mistakes in their tax filing, and to what extent this can be affected by providing information about the tax code. We utilize a novel natural field experiment design, ... -
The spike at benefit exhaustion: The role of measurement error in benefit eligibility
Labour Economics (Elsevier, 2019)Many studies have found that the exit rate from unemployment insurance benefits to employment increases at the end of the entitlement period. The magnitude of this “spike” in the job finding rate at benefit exhaustion is ... -
Trade, productivity and profitability: On profit levels and profit margins
The World Economy : forthcoming (Wiley, 2018)Do firms engaging in international trade have higher or lower profit margins? It is well established that more productive firms engage in trading activities and as a result have higher profit levels. We use two theoretical ... -
Transfer taxes and household mobility: Distortion on the housing or labor market?
Journal of Urban Economics (Elsevier, 2017)We estimate the effect of the UK Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) – a transfer tax on the purchase price of property or land – on different types of household mobility using micro data. Exploiting a discontinuity in the tax ... -
Using meta-models in simulation-based investment analysis – studying the financing mix of metal mining investments
Fuzzy Economic Review : 1 (SIGEF, 2020)This paper is the first documented research effort on how simple meta-models can be used in simulation-based investment analysis. Modern computers allow the construction and simulation of near real-world emulating models, ... -
Victorian Voting: The Origins of Party Orientation and Class Alignment
American Journal of Political Science : Forthcoming (Wiley, 2019)Much of what we know about the alignment of voters with parties comes from mass surveys of the electorate in the postwar period or from aggregate electoral data. Using individual elector‐level panel data from nineteenth‐century ... -
What Are the Benefits of the Water Framework Directive? Lessons Learned for Policy Design from Preference Revelation
Environmental and Resource Economics : 4 (Springer Verlag, 2017)The Water Framework Directive (WFD) seeks to achieve good ecological status of surface waters across the European Union by 2027. The WFD guidelines explicitly recognize the economics of water management by providing ... -
What Goes Up May Not Come Down: Asymmetric Incidence of Value-Added Taxes
Journal of Political Economy : 12 (University of Chicago Press, 2020)This paper provides evidence that prices respond significantly more strongly to increases than to decreases in Value-Added Taxes (VATs). First, using two plausibly exogenous VAT changes, we show that prices respond twice ...