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Mortality Inequality in Finland
(Wiley, 2021)
We study inequality in mortality in Finland using registry data that cover the whole population for years 1990–2018. We create municipality-level indices of regional deprivation (poverty rate), and show how age-specific ...
Gender differences in behaviour under competitive pressure: Evidence on omission patterns in university entrance examinations
(Elsevier, 2015)
This paper studies gender differences in performance in university entrance examinations. We exploit data from the exams that the Finnish universities that provide education in economics and business use to choose their ...
Revenue-maximizing top earned income tax rate in the presence of income-shifting
(Nordic Tax Research Council, 2017)
We provide an analysis of the revenue-maximizing top earned income tax rate for a country with one of the highest levels of earnings taxation in the world, Finland, and compare it to the current level of taxation. We account ...
Business owners and income-shifting: evidence from Finland
(Springer Verlag, 2016)
This study examines income-shifting between tax bases among the owners of privately held businesses. The dual income tax system in Finland offers noticeable incentives for income-shifting between wages and dividends for ...
The elasticity of taxable income and income-shifting: what is “real” and what is not?
(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, ...
Inequality in mortality between Black and White Americans by age, place, and cause and in comparison to Europe, 1990 to 2018
(National Academy of Sciences, 2021)
Although there is a large gap between Black and White American life expectancies, the gap fell 48.9% between 1990 and 2018, mainly due to mortality declines among Black Americans. We examine age-specific mortality trends ...
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 ...
Economic Crises and Unemployment Persistence: Analysis of Job Losses During the Finnish Recession of the 1990s
(Wiley, 2019)
This study estimates the effect of job loss for Finnish workers who were displaced during a severe recession in the early 1990s. The setting provides a sample of workers of which over 90% experienced unemployment after ...
Age at arrival, parents and neighborhoods: understanding the educational attainment of immigrants' children
(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 ...
Gender-specific top incomes: are they Pareto distributed?
(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 ...