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Unemployment Insurance in Finland: A Review of Recent Changes and Empirical Evidence on Behavioral Responses
(VATT Institute for Economic Research, 2017-02-20)
The goal of this report is twofold. The first is to provide an overview of the Finnish unemployment insurance (UI) system. We describe all major changes in eligibility criteria, benefit levels and benefit durations since ...
Long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits for older workers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-05-31)
This paper examines the long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits that older unemployed can collect until retirement in Finland. We consider a reform that increased the age threshold of this scheme from 55 to 57 ...
On the reliability of retrospective unemployment information in European household panel data
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2011-01-31)
The retrospectively recalled calendar of activities in the European Community Household Panel is a prime resource for cross country analysis of unemployment experience. We investigate the reliability of these data and find ...
A Distributional Analysis of Displacement Costs in an Economic Depression and Recovery
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2008-12-31)
We study the earnings losses of Finnish private sector workers who lost their jobs at two very different points in the business cycle. The first group was displaced in 1992 (depression period) and the second one in 1997 ...
The effects of UI benefits on unemployment and subsequent outcomes: Evidence from a kinked benefit rule
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2016-12-12)
This paper analyzes the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on unemployment exits and subsequent labor market outcomes. We exploit a piecewise linear relationship between the previous wage and UI benefits in ...
Early retirement policy in the presence of competing exit pathways: Evidence from policy reforms in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2010-11-12)
A majority of older Finns withdraw from employment via early retirement schemes years before the statutory retirement age. Over the past 15 years, a series of policy reforms have been introduced to reduce the widespread ...
The Corona Crisis and Household Income: The Case of a Generous Welfare State
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-02-04)
Using a microsimulation approach, this paper evaluates the distributional consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in Finland. We use up-to-date administrative data on incomes and employment developments in 2020 at the entire ...
Estimating the effects of potential benefit duration without variation in the maximum duration of unemployment benefits
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-05-31)
This paper examines the effects of unemployment benefit duration in Finland. To overcome the problem that the maximum duration of benefits is the same for all unemployed we exploit two observations. First, despite the ...
The labor market in Finland, 2000–2018
(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 ...