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Removing Welfare Traps: Employment Responses in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-03-17)
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 ...
Does sending letters increase the take-up of social benefits? Evidence from a new benefit program
(Springer, 2022)
The effectiveness of transfer programs in reducing poverty and inequality can be significantly reduced if eligible individuals fail to apply for them. This paper shows that benefit take-up can be influenced by sending ...
Incentives, Health, and Retirement: Evidence from a Finnish Pension Reform
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-07-05)
We analyse the effects of changes in retirement incentives on retirement behaviour, and in particular whether individuals' health status modifes the effects of retirement incentives. We study these issues in the context ...
Technology, Labour Market Institutions and Early Retirement: Evidence from Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-12-23)
There are two major barriers to increasing employment of older workers. First, older workers engaged in codifiable, routine tasks are particularly prone to the risk of being displaced by computers and robots. Second, several ...