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Screening through Activation? Differential Effects of a Youth Activation Program
(University of Wisconsin Press, 2022)
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 ...
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 ...
Self-Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics
(Oxford University Press, 2019)
The Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realised. The conditions shown to result in positive or negative selection in terms of expected earnings also imply a stochastic ...
Transfer taxes and household mobility: Distortion on the housing or labor market?
(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 ...
Secular rise in economically valuable personality traits
(National Academy of Sciences, 2017)
Although trends in many physical characteristics and cognitive capabilities of modern humans are well-documented, less is known about how personality traits have evolved over time. We analyze data from a standardized ...
Integrating Immigrants: The Impact of Restructuring Active Labor Market Programs
(University of Chicago Press, 2016)
We examine the impact of restructuring active labor market programs for unemployed immigrants in Finland. Exploiting a discontinuity in the phase-in rules of the reform, we find that it increased compliers’ cumulative ...
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 ...
Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence from Changes in Municipal Income Tax Rates in Finland
(Wiley, 2018)
The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is a key parameter in income tax analysis both in terms of efficiency and tax revenue. This paper uses Finnish data to analyze the ETI. I use changes in flat municipal income tax rates ...
The Evolution of Social Mobility: Norway during the Twentieth Century
(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 ...
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 ...