Selaus tekijän mukaan kokoelmassa Vertaisarvioidut artikkelit (Peer-reviewed articles)
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Does Experience Rating Reduce Sickness and Disability Claims? Evidence from Policy Kinks
Kyyrä, Tomi; Paukkeri, Tuuli
Journal of Health Economics (Elsevier, 2018)We study whether the experience rating of employers’ disability insurance premiums affects the inflow to disability benefits in Finland. To identify the causal effect of experience rating, we exploit kinks in the rule that ... -
Does subsidized part-time employment help unemployed workers to find full-time employment?
Kyyrä, Tomi; Arranz, José M.; García-Serrano, Carlos
Labour Economics (Elsevier, 2019)We study whether part-time work acts as a bridge towards full-time work for unemployed workers in Spain. We consider a time period when firms were encouraged to create part-time jobs by cutting employers' social security ... -
Early Retirement Policy in the Presence of Competing Exit Pathways: Evidence from Pension Reforms in Finland
Kyyrä, Tomi
Economica : 325 (Wiley, 2015)I study the effects of changes in the eligibility age thresholds for unemployment and part-time pensions, and the effect of tightening medical criteria for disability pension eligibility in Finland. Particular attention ... -
Long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits for older workers
Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna
Labour Economics : Available online (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. ... -
Technology, labour market institutions and early retirement
Yashiro, Naomitsu; Kyyrä, Tomi; Hwang, Hyunjeong; Tuomala, Juha
Economic Policy : Available online (Oxford University Press, 2022)There are two important barriers to increasing the employment of older workers under rapid technological change. First, older workers engaged in codifiable, routine tasks are particularly prone to the risk of being displaced ... -
The effects of employers’ disability and unemployment insurance costs on benefit inflows
Kyyrä, Tomi; Tuomala, Juha
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 UI Benefits on Unemployment and Subsequent Outcomes: Evidence from a Kinked Benefit Rule
Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna
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
Kyyrä, Tomi
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
Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna
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 labor market in Finland, 2000–2018
Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna
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 spike at benefit exhaustion: The role of measurement error in benefit eligibility
Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna; Verho, Jouko
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 ...