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Slipping through the Cracks of a Welfare State: Children of Immigrants in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-03-22)
We document large differences in educational attainment, criminal sentences and use of psychotropic medication between the children of immigrants and natives living in Finland. Among the offspring of immigrants from the ...
Reconciling the evidence of Card and Krueger (1994) and Neumark and Wascher (2000)
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2011-04-29)
We employ the original Card and Krueger (1994) and Neumark and Wascher (2000) data together with the changes-in-changes (CIC) estimator to re-examine the evidence of the effect of minimum wages on employment. Our study ...
Does experience rating reduce disability inflow?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-04-25)
This study explores whether the experience rating of employers' disability insurance premiums affects the inflow of older employees to disability benefits in Finland. To identify the causal effect of experience rating, we ...
The impact of tax incentives on the economic activity of entrepreneurs
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-01-10)
Based on existing evidence, we know little about how the taxation of small business owners affects their economic activity. This paper studies the effect of two Finnish tax reforms, in 1997 and 1998, on the effort decisions ...
The Loss of Production Work: Identification of Demand Shifts Based on Local Soviet Trade Shocks
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-03-25)
This paper examines changes in the structure of labor demand in panel data on Finnish manufacturing plants. I exploit general equilibrium effects on unit labor costs in local labor markets induced by the 1990 collapse of ...
Worker-level consequences of import shocks
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-05-16)
We analyse the effects of imports on employment and earnings by distinguishing between import competition in final products and firms' use of imports in production (offshoring). We use Finnish worker-firm data merged with ...
The Finnish payroll tax cut experiment revisited
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2011-04-13)
In this paper I evaluate the effects of a regional experiment that reduced payroll taxes by 3–6 percentage points of the firms' wage sum in northern and eastern Finland. I estimate the effect of the payroll tax reduction ...
Variation in price and substitution elasticities between sectors – A microdata analysis
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2012-07-03)
The purpose of this study is to determine the substitution and price elasticities of different production inputs in numerous sectors in order to reveal how much these elasticities vary between sectors. These elasticities ...
Changes in job stability - evidence from lifetime job histories
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2010-02-18)
We use lifetime job histories from the pension records to evaluate changes in job stability in Finland between 1963 and 2004. We specify a duration model and estimate the effects of elapsed duration, age, and calendar time ...
The threat effect of mandatory programme participation in Finland - A study of activation reform of the labour market support system
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2010-02-03)
This study focuses on the threat effect of the activation reform of the Finnish labour market support system in 2006. In practice, participation in the labour market programmes became mandatory for the long-term recipients ...