Selaus nimekkeen mukaan kokoelmassa VATT Discussion Papers (1990-2008)
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Navigating through the Finnish Pension System
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 224 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 06.07.2000)The paper constructs a competing risks duration model, explaining the probability of retirement due to old-age, ill health or long-term unemployment. It also attempts to measure the degree of substitution between the various ... -
Non-Parametric Estimation of Lorenz Curves Using Locally Weighted Regression
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 59 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1994) -
Nonlinearity and Heteroscedasticity in Tobit Models: Score Tests for Misspecification with one Degree of Freedom
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 16 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1992) -
Nonparametric Estimates of Age Profiles of Household Income, Consumption, Direct Taxes and Public Transfers
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 126 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1996)The report studies the distribution of income, expenditure, direct taxes and public transfers with respect to the age of household?s head. The data tonsist of five household budget surveys from the period 1971-1990 collected ... -
Nordic Dual Income Taxation of Entrepreneurs
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 415 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 05.04.2007)The paper shows how entrepreneurial taxes interact with the career choice of individuals, the quality of entrepreneurs, and their investment behavior. It is particularly relevant to differentiate the early effects on ... -
OECD Forecasts for the G7 Countries in 1969 - 1997
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 187 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1998)This paper presents a review of OECD forecasts for the G7 countries for the period 1969 - 1997. The analysis deals with the magnitude, auto-correlation and eventual bias of the errors. In addition, we scrutinize the cyclical ... -
On Calculating Welfare Losses of Taxation and Public Provision
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 74 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1994) -
On Calculating Welfare Losses of Taxation and Public Provision on the margin and to a degree
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 108 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1995)In the paper an index number measuring inefficiency of taxation is introduced which is based on an economy-wide generalisation of the input distance function. Related concepts are an input based quantity index, the index ... -
On Economic Poverty in Finland in the 1990s
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 264 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 08.01.2002)We have examined recent trends in the poverty in Finland using two data sources, the Household Budget Survey (HBS) and the Income Distribution statistics (IDS). We have drawn on the recent literature on poverty analysis ... -
On Optimal Non-Linear Taxation and Public Good Provision in Overlapping Generations Economy
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 200 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1999)Using the self-selection approach to tax analysis within an OLG framework, the paper examines optimal non-linear labour and capital income taxation and the provision of a durable public good. Under endogenous wages, the ... -
On the Efficiency of Job and Income Protection in the Dynamic Labour Markets
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 219 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 31.05.2000)This paper investigates the efficiency implications of two kinds of worker protection, job security and income protection. Both of them have important aggregate efficiency effects in the dynamic labor markets, where worker ... -
On the Importance of Finnishing School: Half a Century of Inter-generational Economic Mobility in Finland
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 359 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 10.02.2005)Trends in inter-generational economic mobility in Finland are analyzed using panel data from 1950 through 1999 on more than 200 thousand sons and daughters born between 1930 and 1970. A significant decline is estimated in ... -
On the Patterns of European Production Factor Mobility
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 61 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1994) -
Optimal Forest Taxation with Multiple-Use Characteristics of Forest Stands
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 93 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1995) -
Optimal Public Procurement Contracts Under a Soft Budget Constraint
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 464 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 31.12.2008)This paper presents a model where the central government cannot ensure that regional governments manage risks prudentially, due to soft budget constraint. Competition for project funding induces the regional governments ... -
Partial Unemployment Insurance Benefits and the Transition Rate to Regular Work
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 440 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 19.03.2008)In Finland, unemployed workers who are looking for a full-time job but take up a part-time or very short full-time job may qualify for partial unemployment benefits. In exchange for partial benefits, these applicants must ... -
Productive Efficiency and Determinants of Inefficiency at Health Centres in Finland
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 94 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1995)Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli selvittää terveyskeskusten välillä havaittuja eroja palvelutuotannon tehokkuudessa, jotka aiemman tutkimuksen mukaan ovat varsin huomattavat. Tobit-malliin perustuvan analyysin selitettävänä ... -
Productivity Changes in Finnish Health Centres: A Malmquist Index Approach
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 218 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 19.04.2000)This paper studies productivity development of Finnish health centres in 1988-95 by applying different specifications of Malmquist index. As input variables we use operating costs or the number of personnel by employee ... -
Progressive Taxation Under Centralised Wage Setting
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 349 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.12.2004)The study reconsiders the effects of tax progression in imperfectly competitive labour markets. Allowing for the individual supply of working hours, we show that the results derived in the standard model of decentralised ... -
Public Services
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 38 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1992)
