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School starting age, maternal age at birth, and child outcomes
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-02-23)
This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and 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. ...
Mortality Inequality in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-02-26)
We study inequality in mortality in Finland using registry data that covers the whole population for years 1990-2018. We create municipality-level indexes of regional deprivation (poverty rate), and show how age-specifc ...
The Effects of Unemployment Assistance on Unemployment Exits
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-03-19)
Many countries have a two-tiered unemployment compensation system which provides earnings-related unemployment insurance for a limited period of time and less generous unemployment assistance thereafter. This study evaluates ...
Wage and Employment Discrimination by Gender in Labor Market Equilibrium
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-05-28)
This paper develops an equilibrium search model to study the mechanisms underlying the lifecycle gender wage gap: human capital accumulation, preference for job amenities, and employers’ statistical discrimination in wage ...
Using Payroll Tax Variation to Unpack the Black Box of Firm-Level Production
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-01-29)
This paper uses quasi-experimental variation in payroll tax rates in Finland to investigate how firms use their input factors. We find that higher payroll tax rates lead to large employment responses and have no effects ...
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 ...
Discrete Labor Supply: Empirical Evidence and Implications
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-05-25)
We provide novel evidence of discrete labor supply responses to tax incentives and study the broader implications of discrete rather than continuous labor supply. We utilize an income notch and a reform that shifted the ...
Optimal Patent Policy for Pharmaceutical Industry
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-05-20)
We show how characterizing optimal patent policy for the pharmaceutical industry only requires information about generic producers’ responses to changes in the effective duration and scope of new drug patents. To estimate ...
Physician Prices and Competition: Evidence from Acquisitions in the Private Health Care Sector
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-04-30)
We consider the effects of mergers and acquisitions for private physicians, who compete for patients on price. To estimate the effects, we use nationwide administrative data on private physicians and the organization of ...
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 ...