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The Effectiveness of Differentiation of the Finnish Car Purchase Tax according to Carbon Dioxide Emission Performance
(VATT Institute for Economic Research, 2012-03-06)
The study concerns an assessment of the effectiveness of car purchase tax differentiation according to the CO2-emission performance of newly sold cars as implemented in Finland. This policy instrument came into force as ...
Labor Market Integration of Refugees in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATTVATT Institute for Economic Research, 2017-02-21)
This paper documents Finland’s policy response to the increase in asylum applications in 2015 and the labor market performance of earlier immigrants living in Finland. Immigrants born in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia had ...
Trends in top income shares in Finland 1966-2007
(VATT Institute for Economic Research, 2010-09-08)
This paper provides new evidence about the evolution of top incomes in Finland over the period 1966–2007. Using micro data we construct estimates of shares of top income groups. The paper shows how the proportion of income ...
Unemployment Insurance in Finland: A Review of Recent Changes and Empirical Evidence on Behavioral Responses
(VATT Institute for Economic Research, 2017-02-20)
The goal of this report is twofold. The first is to provide an overview of the Finnish unemployment insurance (UI) system. We describe all major changes in eligibility criteria, benefit levels and benefit durations since ...
Essays on work and fertility
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-02-04)
This dissertation consists of four empirical essays all related to children and parents' labor supply, earnings and income in Finland. In the essays the problem of unobserved heterogeneity has been attacked in various ways. ...
Essays on public economics
(VATT Institute for Economic Research and Aalto University, 2018-06-04)
This doctoral thesis is a collection of four essays in public economics that look at various public policies and their impacts on low-income and otherwise vulnerable individuals. The essays share the general aim of studying ...
Essays on taxation – Evidence from tax reforms
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-11-27)
This dissertation consists an introductory chapter and four empirical essays on the taxation of firms and individuals. The first essay concentrates on how the Finnish tax reform of 2005 affected voluntary pension plan ...
Essays on labour demand and wage formation
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2012-02-01)
The first essay in this thesis is on gender wage differentials among manufacturing sector white-collar workers. The wage differential is decomposed into firm, job (within-firm) and individual-level components. Job-level ...
Local public sector in transition: A Nordic perspective
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2010-11-11)
This book consists of six original essays of which four discuss and analyse the situation of the local governments in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway. In addition, two essays provide a more general view of fiscal ...
Putting a Price on Carbon – Econometric Essays on the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme and its Impacts
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-03-20)
This dissertation examines the main instrument of the European Union climate policy, the emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) during its first years. Emission trading provides a cost-efficient way to reduce emissions. It ...