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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 ...
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 ...
Job Tasks and Gender Wage Gaps within Occupations
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2019-10-09)
I provide evidence that task use at work by men and women in the same occupations is significantly different. The observed difference can account for the within-occupational gender-wage gap that is prevalent in many developed ...