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Adjustment to Regional Labour Market Shocks
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-05-22)
This paper analyses regional labour market adjustment in the Finnish provinces during 1976-2000. It investigates the inter-relations of employment, unemployment, labour force participation and migration to see how a change ...
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 ...
Do Wage-subsidies Increase Employment in Firms?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-05-19)
The literature evaluating active labour market programmes concentrates on the subsequent labour market performance of the unemployed work force that has undergone training or has spent a certain period in a subsidised job. ...
The Determinants of Unemployment Duration by Gender in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-11-24)
This paper models unemployment durations for men and women in Finland using a nationally representative data set from 1997. We begin with a baseline model where durations are modelled using a single risk discrete time ...
Comparative Analysis on the Job-Broking Market in Japan and Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2005-11-30)
This study compares the job-broking market of Japan and Finland. The study is based on statistical and literature analysis and interviews at the Public Employment Service. The Japanese labour market can be divided into a ...
Business Subsidies and Employment of Firms: Overall Evaluation and Regional Extension
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-03-11)
This paper investigates the effects of business subsidies on the employment of firms in Finland, and explores possible regional differences in the effects. Employment of some 26,000 firms is followed annually between ...
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 ...
Wage and Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2007-05-25)
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the cost of job displacement for private sector workers displaced in Finland during the years 1992 and 1997. Our main goal is to measure the ways in which involuntary ...
Unions, Labour supply and Structure of Taxation: Equal Tax Bases
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1995-01-01)
This paper investigates the employment effects of changes in the structure of taxation and in the tax progression. The contribution is to add endogenous determination of working hours into a union wage setting model. Thus ...
Competing risks for vacancy durations and endogenous common dependence
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1995-01-01)
The paper presents a discussion how firms rationally adjust the level of their recruitment effort in relation to the ease of filling the vacancy through public unemployment offices. This induces dependence between the ...