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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 ...
Assimilation to a Welfare State: Labor Market Performance and Use of Social Benefits by Immigrants to Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2008-10-14)
Abstract: I study the assimilation of immigrants to the Finnish labor market and welfare system. The initial immigrant-native earnings gaps are large. While longterm immigrants experience a rapid earnings growth, only men ...
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 ...
Labour Taxation, Tax Progression and Job Matching - Comparative Alternative Models of Wage Setting
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-11-21)
In this paper we consider the effects of labour taxation on wages, unemployment and efficiency in a job matching framework. We derive labour market equilibrium with taxes in a model of endogenous job creation and job ...
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 ...
Regional Labour Market Dynamics, Housing and Migration
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-10-28)
The aim of this study is to explore the dynamics of regional labour markets in terms of migration flows. In particular, the study explores the impact of labour markets and housing markets on migration. The internal and the ...
Hours of Work and Time Use of Employment People in Estonia and Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1992-01-01)
Is Little Brother Nothing but Trouble?: Educational Attainment, Returns to Schooling and Sibling Structure
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-04-15)
Family effects on an individual's labor market success have been studied by economists and sociologists. The consensus is that background matters to educational and labor market performance, but it is not clear how and ...
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. ...
Education and Unemployment: State Dependence in Unemployment Among Young People in the 1990s
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-08-21)
This study examines the labour market careers of young people who finished their studies or left compulsory schooling in 1988. The main issue of interest is the impact of past unemployment on current unemployment. The ...