Selaus syöttöajan mukaan kokoelmasssa Vertaisarvioidut artikkelit (Peer-reviewed articles)
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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 ... -
It’s time to learn: School institutions and returns to instruction time
Economics of Education Review : Available online (Elsevier, 2021)This paper investigates whether the effects of a reform that substantially increased daily instruction time in Chilean primary schools vary depending on school institutions. Focusing on incumbent students and exploiting ... -
Gender-specific top incomes: are they Pareto distributed?
Economics Bulletin : 3 (Open Access) (Economics Bulletin, 2020)Estimating the Pareto alpha parameters from the top income distribution separately for women and men can provide information on gender inequality at the top (Atkinson et al. 2018). However, whether the top incomes for women ... -
Analyzing Renewable Energy Policies – Using the Pay-Off Method to Study the Finnish Auction-Based Renewable Energy Policy
Journal of Environmental Informatics Letters : 2 (ISEIS, 2020)Design of support-mechanisms is an important component of renewable energy policy. In order to be able to choose desirable designs one must have a good understanding of the most likely outcomes from different policy designs ... -
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. ... -
Regional variation in potentially inappropriate medicine use in older adults. - A national register-based cross-sectional study on economic, health system-related and patient-related characteristics
Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy : Available online (Elsevier, 2020)Background: Potentially inappropriate medicines (PIM), i.e. medicines in which the potential harms may outweigh the benefits, use may be associated with e.g. hospitalization, outpatient visits and health care costs. As ... -
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 ... -
Post-secondary education and information on labor market prospects: A randomized field experiment
Labour Economics (Elsevier, 2020)We examine the impact of an information intervention offered to 97 randomly chosen high schools on post-secondary education applications and enrollment in Finland. Graduating students in treatment schools were surveyed and ... -
Prospect Theory, Fairness, and the Escalation of Conflict at a Negotiation Impasse
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics (05 / 2019)We study a bilateral negotiation set‐up where, at a bargaining impasse, the disadvantaged party chooses whether to escalate the conflict or not. Escalation is costly for both parties, and it results in a random draw of the ... -
Attitudes towards genetic testing and information: does parenthood shape the views?
Journal of Community Genetics : 4 (Open Access) (Springer, 2020)This study examines how parents of pediatric patients might differ in their views and attitudes towards genetic technology and information when compared to adult patients. There is surprisingly little evidence on how parents ... -
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 ... -
Age at arrival, parents and neighborhoods: understanding the educational attainment of immigrants' children
Journal of Economic Geography : 2 (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 ... -
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 ... -
Screening through Activation? Differential Effects of a Youth Activation Program
The Journal of Human Resources : Available online (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020)We study the dual role of active labor market policies: First, ALMP may perform a screening role by increasing job-search incentives, especially among individuals with good labor market prospects, already before program ... -
'Sticky' Policies—Three Country Cases on Long-Term Commitment and Rooting of RE Policy Goals
Energies : 6 (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 ... -
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 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 ... -
Regional competitiveness and high growth firms in the EU: the creativity premium
Applied Economics : 22 (Taylor & Francis, 2020)The finding that the economic performance of regions is driven by a small set of productive firms calls for a granular analysis of regional growth and competitiveness. Among the productive firms, a significant contribution ... -
Effectiveness of Private and Public High Schools: Evidence from Finland
CESifo Economic Studies : 4 (Oxford University Press, 2019)A number of papers have compared the effectiveness of private and public schools in different institutional settings. However, most of these studies are observational and do not utilize experimental or quasi-experimental ... -
Missing miles: Evasion responses to car taxes
Journal of Public Economics (Elsevier, 2020)We study a tax evasion response to car taxes in Finland, where used car importers overstate the mileage to reduce tax liability. First, we develop a tax evasion measure by comparing reported mileage upon import with ...
