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Evaluating tax and benefit reforms in 1996-2001
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-07-02)
This report evaluates the tax-benefit reforms in 1996?2001. The Government appointed a working group in 1995 to plan the tax-benefit reforms. The proposals of the group were first implemented in 1997 and all the measures ...
Determinants of Expenditure Variation in Finnish Municipalities
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-03-19)
This paper focuses on two separate issues. First, the expenditure response of Finnish municipalities to price and income changes during the matching grants period is examined. Second, the existence of the so-called "flypaper ...
Do Wages Subsidies Increase Employment in Subsidised Firms?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2005-12-30)
The present paper examines whether subsidised jobs have contributed to the employment in subsidised firms or merely substituted for non-subsidised ones. The data set is an unbalanced panel of some 31,000 firms that are ...
Progressive Taxation Under Centralised Wage Setting
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2004-12-01)
The study reconsiders the effects of tax progression in imperfectly competitive labour markets. Allowing for the individual supply of working hours, we show that the results derived in the standard model of decentralised ...
Labour Tax Reforms and Labour Demand in Finland 1997-2001
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-05-06)
The report describes the development of labour taxation in Finland since the launching of the Employment Guidelines (EG) in 1997. The taxes considered include state and municipal taxes on earned income as well as social ...
Spend and Tax or Tax and Spend? Panel Data Evidence from Finnish Municipalities during 1985 - 1999
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2000-12-31)
This paper studies the dynamic interrelationship between total expenditures, own source revenues, grants received from state and loans in Finnish municipalities. Two separate panel data sets that cover the years 1985-1992 ...