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Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2005-03-07)
This survey presents findings from recent empirical studies on economic impacts of immigration with particular emphasis on European and Nordic countries. The survey consists of three parts. First, we look at the extent of ...
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 ...
RD and Productivity Growth in Finnish ICT Manufacturing
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2006-05-04)
A stochastic frontier model is applied to firm level panel data from the Finnish ICT manufacturing sector to explore the role of R&D and technological progress in the outstanding productivity growth Finland demonstrated ...
Demography, Pensions and Welfare: Fertility Shocks and the Finnish Economy
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1996-01-01)
The economic effects of an ageing population are preoccupying policy-makers in most industrial countries. In this paper, we study the economic impact of the demographic shock in Finland, a country for which the post-war ...
On the Efficiency of Job and Income Protection in the Dynamic Labour Markets
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2000-05-31)
This paper investigates the efficiency implications of two kinds of worker protection, job security and income protection. Both of them have important aggregate efficiency effects in the dynamic labor markets, where worker ...
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 ...
Belgium as a small open economy in the core of Europe
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1995-01-01)
Small open economies in Europe share many of the same characteristics, policy choices and economic problems. This paper argues that Belgium is profoundly affected by its position as a small open economy in the core of the ...
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 ...
Explaining Gender Wage Differentials: Findings from a Random Effects Model
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-12-18)
In this paper we evaluate the extent to which the gender wage gap in the Finnish manufacturing sector is attributable to within-job wage differentials, sex differences in individual qualifications, and disproportionate ...
Subsidizing vs. Experience Rating of Unemployment Insurance in Unionized Labor Markets
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-12-18)
Alternative ways to organize government subsidies to unemployment insurance (UI) are analyzed in a right-to-manage model where industry level unions run UI funds of their own. It is shown that equilibrium unemployment is ...