Selaus syöttöajan mukaan kokoelmassa Vertaisarvioidut artikkelit (Peer-reviewed articles)
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The effects of employers’ disability and unemployment insurance costs on benefit inflows
Labour Economics : Available online (Open access) (Elsevier, 19.08.2023)In Finland, large firms are partially liable for the costs of disability and unemployment benefits paid to their former workers. To estimate the effects of such cost liabilities, we exploit a reform that extended this ... -
Ignorance is bliss? Information and risk on crowdfunding platforms
PLoS ONE : 6 (open access) (Public Library of Science, 16.06.2023)This research examines the determinants of project success on crowdfunding platforms within a competitive context. We focus on the specific horizontal attributes of the project–attributes that do not affect the project ... -
Innovators, followers and laggards in home solar PV: Factors driving diffusion in Finland
Energy Research & Social Science : (Open access) (Elsevier, 22.06.2023)Generating electricity from solar energy is a way for households to participate in the ongoing transition to decarbonized and more decentralized energy systems. A large empirical literature has examined the drivers and ... -
Do Tax Incentives Increase Firm Innovation? An RD Design for R&D, Patents, and Spillovers
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy : forthcoming (American Economic Association, 17.05.2023)We present evidence of the positive causal impacts of research and development (R&D) tax incentives on a firm’s own innovation and that of its technological neighbors (spillovers). Exploiting a change in the assets-based ... -
JUE insight: City-wide effects of new housing supply: Evidence from moving chains
Journal of Urban Economics : Available online (Open access) (Elsevier, 07.01.2023)We study the city-wide effects of new, centrally-located market-rate housing supply using geo-coded population-wide register data from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The supply of new market rate units triggers moving ... -
Lost boys? Secondary education and crime
Journal of Public Economics : Available online (Open access) (Elsevier, 02.01.2023)We study the effect of secondary education on criminal behavior of young men in Finland. We exploit admission cut-offs in over-subscribed programs and estimate the effect of gaining access to a) any secondary school vs no ... -
Love Thy (Elected) Neighbor? Residential Segregation, Political Representation and Local Public Goods
Journal of Politics : Accepted (The University of Chicago Press, 10 / 2022)We study geographic political representation and geographic distribution of local public goods within local jurisdictions with at-large proportional representation elections. We use detailed geo-coded data on politicians, ... -
Immigrant intergenerational mobility: A focus on childhood environment
European Economic Review (Elsevier, 2022)Over 60% of immigrant parents in Sweden start off in the bottom quintile of the income distribution, yet only about 30% of their children are still in the bottom income quintile in adulthood. This progress notwithstanding, ... -
Famine, Inequality, and Conflict
Journal of the European Economic Association : Accepted manuscript (Oxford University Press, 11 / 2022)This paper employs newly-collected historical data from Finland to present evidence of historically contingent, long-run consequences of a famine. We document high levels of local inequality in terms of income and land ... -
The effects of unemployment assistance on unemployment exits
International Tax and Public Finance : Available online (Springer, 09 / 2022)Many countries have a two-tiered unemployment compensation system that provides earnings-related unemployment insurance for a limited period of time and less generous unemployment assistance thereafter. This study evaluates ... -
School starting age, maternal age at birth, and child outcomes
Journal of Health Economics : Open access (Elsevier, 07 / 2022)This paper analyses the effects of maternal age at birth on children's short and long-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school starting age rule for identification. Mothers who are born after the ... -
Design and Evaluation of the Finnish Basic Income Experiment
National Tax Journal : 3 (National Tax Association, 2022)The Finnish basic income experiment was an ambitious effort to study basic income in a Nordic welfare state. This paper describes the planning, implementation, and scientific evaluation of the experiment. The randomized ... -
The Unequal Consequences of Job Loss across Countries
American Economic Review: Insights : 3 (American Economic Association, 2022)We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design applied to seven matched employer-employee datasets. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines ... -
COVID-19 and labour market outcomes by gender in Finland
Nordic Economic Policy Review 2022: COVID-19 Effects on the Economy in the Nordics : 001 (Nordic Council of Ministers, 07.06.2022)This paper presents evidence of the immediate labour market effects of the COVID-19 pandemic by gender, using Finnish daily administrative data. We document that employment reductions during the COVID-19 pandemic were more ... -
Education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers: Rejoinder
Economics of Education Review : 5 (Elsevier, 2009)In their reply to our comment, García-Mainar and Montuenga-Gómez [García-Mainar, I., & Montuenga-Gómez, V. M. (2009). A response to the comment on education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers. Economics of ... -
Education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers: Comment
Economics of Education Review : 5 (Elsevier, 2009)In a recent paper, García-Mainar and Montuenga-Gómez [García-Mainar, I. & Montuenga-Gómez, V. M. (2005). Education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers: Portugal vs. Spain. Economics of Education Review, 24(2), ... -
The Threat Effect of Mandatory Programmes in Finland
Labour : 4 (Wiley, 2011)This study focuses on the threat effect of the activation reform of the Finnish labour market support system in 2006. Mandatory programme participation may provide the incentive for some individuals to look for work in ... -
The effects of corporate taxes on small firms
Journal of Public Economics : Open access (Elsevier, 2022)We study the impact of corporate taxes on firm-level investments and business activity by exploiting a 6 percentage-point reduction in the corporate tax rate in 2012–2014 in Finland. We use detailed administrative data and ... -
Relabeling, retirement and regret
Journal of Public Economics : Open Access (Elsevier, 2022)Can simply changing the public definition of a normal retirement age impact retirement, without any associated financial incentive changes? We study a reformulation of the retirement system in Finland that relabeled ... -
Technology, labour market institutions and early retirement
Economic Policy : Available online (Oxford University Press, 2022)There are two important barriers to increasing the employment of older workers under rapid technological change. First, older workers engaged in codifiable, routine tasks are particularly prone to the risk of being displaced ...