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Relabeling, retirement and regret
(Elsevier, 2022)
Can simply changing the public definition of a normal retirement age impact retirement, without any associated financial incentive changes? We study a reformulation of the retirement system in Finland that relabeled ...
Removing Welfare Traps: Employment Responses in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment
(American Economic Association, 2022)
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 ...
Housing Allowance and Rents: Evidence from a Stepwise Subsidy Scheme
(Wiley, 2021)
In this paper, we study the effect of housing demand subsidies on rents using discontinuities in the Finnish housing allowance system as a quasi‐experimental setting. The stepwise dependence of housing allowance on the ...
The spike at benefit exhaustion: The role of measurement error in benefit eligibility
(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 ...
Does Experience Rating Reduce Sickness and Disability Claims? Evidence from Policy Kinks
(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 ...
Early Retirement Policy in the Presence of Competing Exit Pathways: Evidence from Pension Reforms in Finland
(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 ...
Formative Experiences and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from the Finnish Great Depression
(Wiley, 2017)
We trace the impact of formative experiences on portfolio choice. Plausibly exogenous variation in workers’ exposure to a depression allows us to identify the effects and a new estimation approach makes addressing wealth ...
The Effects of UI Benefits on Unemployment and Subsequent Outcomes: Evidence from a Kinked Benefit Rule
(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 ...
Does subsidized part-time employment help unemployed workers to find full-time employment?
(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 ...
Does Mandating Social Insurance Affect Entrepreneurial Activity?
(American Economic Association, 2020)
This paper estimates the effect of relaxing the social insurance mandate on entrepreneurial activity using rich administrative data from Finland. We find that relaxing the social insurance mandate leads entrepreneurs to ...