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The Evolution of the Finnish Model in the 1990s: from Depression to High-tech Boom
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2004-12-15)
Finland has recently got much admiration due to economic success reflected in rankings of competitiveness, technology, education and economic growth. This success has largely been embodied in the growth of Nokia group and ...
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 ...
Technical Efficiency in an RD Intensive Industry: Finnish ICT Manufacturing
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2006-05-04)
Technical efficiency levels in Finnish ICT manufacturing are established by applying a stochastic frontier model and retrieving Method of Moments and Battese-Coelli efficiency measures to identify both permanent and ...
Navigating through the Finnish Pension System
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2000-07-06)
The paper constructs a competing risks duration model, explaining the probability of retirement due to old-age, ill health or long-term unemployment. It also attempts to measure the degree of substitution between the various ...
Integrated Panel of Finnish Companies and Workers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2000-08-21)
In this paper we describe the compiling of the integrated data which comprises longitudinal information on Finnish companies and workers. The company panel of the data is dynamically representative over time and covers a ...
Modelling Crime and Punishment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2000-12-31)
This paper provides an extended supply of labour model which allows for different intensities of legal and illegal (criminal) activities and in which criminal activities may be considered both as work and leisure. Heterogeneity ...
The Micro-Level Dynamics of Declining Labour Share: Lessons from the Finnish Great Leap
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2006-11-21)
In contrast with the experiences of the UK and the US, the distribution of labour and capital income has changed sharply in favour of capital in most Continental European and Nordic countries during the past two decades. ...
What Lies Behind the Unprecedented Increase in Income Inequality in Finland During the 1990's
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2001-02-27)
This study uses a decomposition analysis of income inequality by income groups and income sources to understand and explain the inequality increase in Finland during the 1990's. Several conclusions can be drawn from our ...
Is There an Election Cycle in Public Employment? Separating Time Effects from Election Year Effects
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2008-05-05)
Do governments increase public employment in election years? This paper investigates this question by using data from Sweden and Finland, two countries that are similar in many respects but in which local elections are ...
Reduction in the Long-Term Unemployment of the Elderly: A Success Story from Finland Revised
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2006-06-28)
In several European countries the elderly unemployed are allowed to collect unemployment benefits up to a certain age limit, after which they can retire via some early retirement scheme. In Finland the eligibility age of ...