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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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Evaluating greening farm policies: A structural model for assessing agri-environmental subsidies
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2012-11-04)
One quarter of the agricultural area in the European Union is registered in agrienvironmental programs. Despite the prevalence of such programs and increasing demands for environmental quality in the European Union, ex-post ...
RD, investment and structural change in Finland: Is low investment a problem?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2009-06-10)
Low aggregate investment in Finland has been argued to merely reflect structural change to an innovation economy, with high R&D levels adequately compensating for reduced physical investment. This paper briefly reviews the ...
Multinationals, Competition and Productivity Spillovers through Worker Mobility
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2014-01-13)
Spillovers can arise when multinational firms (MNEs) train local employees who later join domestic firms, bringing with them part of the technological, marketing and managerial knowledge they have acquired. Fosfuri et al. ...
On the reliability of retrospective unemployment information in European household panel data
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2011-01-31)
The retrospectively recalled calendar of activities in the European Community Household Panel is a prime resource for cross country analysis of unemployment experience. We investigate the reliability of these data and find ...