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Employment Effects of a Payroll-Tax Cut: Evidence from a Regional Tax Exemption Experiment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2006-11-21)
In this paper we evaluate the effects of a regional experiment that reduced payroll taxes by 3-6 percentage points in Northern Finland for three years. We match each firm in the target region with a similar firm in the ...
Employment and Wage Effects of a Payroll-Tax Cut-Evidence from a Regional Experiment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2008-04-07)
In this paper we evaluate the effects of a regional experiment that reduced payroll-taxes by 3–6 percentage points for three years in Northern Finland. We match each firm in the target region with a similar firm in a ...
Varying Biases in the Matching Estimates: Evidence from Two Randomized Job Search Training Experiments
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2008-02-07)
We compare various matching estimators to the results of two randomized field experiments that evaluate employment effects of job search training programs. We find that commonly used non-experimental matching estimators ...
Homo Entreprenaurus?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1999-01-01)
This paper examines the determinants of self-employment and transitions from wage work to self-employment using two sets of Finnish data from the 1990?s. The results show that capital constraints have only a minor effect ...
Let's Make a Deal - the Impact of Social Security Provisions and Firm Liabilities on Early Retirement
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2001-11-09)
Literature on early retirement has generally ignored firms' role in the labour market withdrawals. Yet, as it is shown in this paper, employee incentives alone cannot explain the increase in unemployment at the end of the ...