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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), ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Are there returns from university location in a state-funded university system?
Regional Science and Urban Economics : 3 (Elsevier, 2013)A location in an economically active, high-amenity region could in many ways be a significant advantage for a university and its students and thus could also be positively linked to students' subsequent earnings. Based on ... -
Quality of higher education and earnings: evidence from Finland using field-of-study-level quality measures
International Review of Applied Economics : 1 (Taylor & Francis, 2014)Using administrative data from Finland, this paper empirically examines the relationship between university graduates’ early career earnings and three measures of university quality: the number of teachers per student, the ... -
Field-of-Study Choice in Higher Education: Does Distance Matter?
Spatial Economic Analysis : 4 (Taylor & Francis, 2014)When field-of-study options vary across higher education institutions, geographical distances may create barriers to students’ study choices. Based on this hypothesis, the present study empirically examines field-of-study ... -
Informational efficiency of the EU ETS market – a study of price predictability and profitable trading
Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy : 1 (Taylor & Francis, 2014)We study the informational efficiency of the European Emissions Trading Scheme, EU ETS market, by simulating the trading in this emerging market. If the market is efficient, profitable trading should only exist locally in ... -
R&D Subsidies and Company Performance: Evidence from Geographic Variation in Government Funding Based on the ERDF Population-Density Rule
The Review of Economics and Statistics : 4 (MIT Press, 2014)Despite the prevalence of R&D support programs, evaluation studies based on explicit differences in support allocation are rare. In this paper, the identification of the causal effect of R&D support on company performance ... -
The environmental Kuznets curve at different levels of economic development: a counterfactual quantile regression analysis for CO2 emissions
Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy : 3 (Taylor & Francis, 2015)This paper applies the quantile fixed effects technique in exploring the CO2 environmental Kuznets curve within two groups of economic development (OECD and non-OECD countries) and six geographical regions – West, East ... -
Do Urban Neighborhoods Benefit from Homeowners? Evidence from Housing Prices
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics : 1 (Wiley, 2015)Homeownership is heavily subsidized in most countries. The adverse effects of this policy on economic efficiency and income distribution are well documented in the economics literature. The main argument in favor of ... -
The role of information in tax compliance: Evidence from a natural field experiment
Economics Letters (Elsevier, 2015)This paper studies how much firms make unintentional mistakes in their tax filing, and to what extent this can be affected by providing information about the tax code. We utilize a novel natural field experiment design, ... -
Early Retirement Policy in the Presence of Competing Exit Pathways: Evidence from Pension Reforms in Finland
Economica : 325 (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 ... -
On the role of public price information in housing markets
Regional Science and Urban Economics (Elsevier, 2015)This paper studies the impact of disclosing detailed house price information on the functioning of the housing market. We first study the effects of increased information on market outcomes in a theoretical framework where ... -
Common pool problems in voluntary municipal mergers
European Journal of Political Economy (Elsevier, 2015)We analyze free-riding behavior of Finnish municipalities prior to voluntary municipal mergers. The merger process creates a temporary common pool problem, because of a delay from the initial decision to the actual merger ... -
Policy Goals for Improved Water Quality in the Baltic Sea: When do the Benefits Outweigh the Costs?
Environmental and Resource Economics : 2 (Springer Verlag, 2015)This paper develops and applies a spatially explicit bioeconomic model to study transboundary nutrient pollution of the Baltic Sea. We combine catchment, marine and economic models covering the entire Baltic Sea region to ... -
Nonlinear Dividend Tax and the Dynamics of the Firm
FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis : 2 (Mohr Siebeck, 2015)We analyze the implications of a nonlinear tax scheme for dividends using a life-cycle model of a firm. In this model new firms first enter markets; then grow internally, financing from retained earnings; and finally ... -
Gender differences in behaviour under competitive pressure: Evidence on omission patterns in university entrance examinations
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (Elsevier, 2015)This paper studies gender differences in performance in university entrance examinations. We exploit data from the exams that the Finnish universities that provide education in economics and business use to choose their ... -
Corporate tax in an international environment – Problems and possible remedies
Nordic Tax Journal : 1 (Nordic Tax Research Council, 2015)The paper addresses the problems of corporate taxation in a globalized world. It first considers recent trends in international practices and then reviews the literature on the effects of corporate taxes in closed and open ... -
Combinations of policy instruments to decrease the climate impacts of housing, passenger transport and food in Finland
Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier, 2015)Policy instruments and measures already target the global warming impacts of housing and transport in many countries, although many of those instruments were not originally developed for the purpose. However, the challenge ... -
More and cheaper haircuts after VAT cut? On the efficiency and incidence of service sector consumption taxes
Journal of Public Economics (Elsevier, 2015)Consumption tax rates targeted at specific sectors are often reformed without any empirical knowledge about the efficiency of these policies. This paper sheds light on tax incidence as well as the efficiency issue, the ...
