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    • Incentives, Health, and Retirement: Evidence from a Finnish Pension Reform 

      Ollonqvist, Joonas; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Laaksonen, Mikko; Martikainen, Pekka; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarkiainen, Lasse
      FIT Working Paper : 11 (Tampereen yliopisto, 23.05.2023)
      We analyse the effects of changes in retirement incentives on retirement behaviour, utilising a Finnish pension reform implemented in 2005. The reform generated financial incentives to postpone retirement for some groups ...

    • Individualized benefits and access to active labor market programs boost refugee women’s economic integration 

      Bratu, Cristina; Martén, Linna; Ottosson, Lillit
      SOFI Working Papers : 3/2023 (Stockholm University, 23.05.2023)
      The economic and social integration of refugees is a key policy concern. The situation of refugee women is particularly challenging, as many never enter the labor force. We study a reform of the Swedish integration program ...

    • Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies: Evidence from Finland's Integration Plans 

      Pesola, Hanna; Sarvimäki, Matti
      IZA Discussion Papers : 15310 (IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 2022)
      This paper shows that an integration policy aimed at unemployed adult immigrants generated positive spillovers for their children. Our research design builds on a discontinuity in the phase-in-rule of Finland’s 1999 reform ...

    • Migration and Tax Policy: Evidence from Finnish Full Population Data 

      Kalin, Salla; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Pirttilä, Jukka
      FIT Working Paper : 1 (Tampereen yliopisto, 05.10.2022)
      While evidence on the impact of taxation on the international migration of certain special groups of workers has expanded, evidence on the links between taxes and migration of the general population is extremely limited. ...

    • Minimum Tax Rates and Tax Competition: Evidence from Property Tax Limits in Finland 

      Lyytikäinen, Teemu
      NBER Working Paper : 31482 (NBER, 01.07.2023)
      This paper analyzes how minimum local property tax rates affect local tax policy choice. In Finland, central government has raised the limits on property tax rates several times in the past 30 years. I construct a measure ...

    • Moral Hazard in Drug Purchases 

      Verho, Jouko; Harju, Jarkko
      FIT Working Paper : 12 (Tampereen yliopisto, 29.05.2023)
      We study the moral hazard effects of the drug copayment threshold in Finland using detailed prescription drug purchase data. The analysis reveals that the average drug costs increase discontinuously by 17% at the threshold ...

    • (Not) Anticipating Predictable Inheritances 

      Vihriälä, Erkki; Virkola, Tuomo
      SSRN Working Paper (SSRN, 19.10.2023)
      We study whether people spend in anticipation of predictable inheritances from elderly parents or act as if inheritances are unpredictable windfalls. Implying incomplete anticipation, children increase car purchases by 36 ...

    • Paying Moms to Stay Home: Short and Long Run Effects on Parents and Children 

      Gruber, Jonathan; Kosonen, Tuomas; Huttunen, Kristiina
      NBER Working Paper : 30931 (NBER, 09.02.2023)
      We study the impacts of a policy designed to reward mothers who stay at home rather than join the labor force when their children are under age three. We use regional and over time variation to show that the Finnish Home ...

    • Paying Moms to Stay Home: Short and Long Run Effects on Parents and Children 

      Gruber, Jonathan; Huttunen, Kristiina; Kosonen, Tuomas
      FIT Working Paper : 4 (Tampereen yliopisto, 22.11.2022)
      We study the impacts of a policy designed to reward mothers who stay at home rather than join the labor force when their children are under age three. We use regional and over time variation in child home care allowance ...

    • Prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector 

      Jussila, Elina; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Verho, Jouko
      FIT Working Paper : 5 (Tampereen yliopisto, 22.12.2022)
      We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which an effective, widely accepted low-cost treatment and alternative, more expensive treatments are available. ...

    • Profit Shifting of Multinational Enterprises: Evidence from the Nordics 

      Viertola, Marika
      FIT Working Paper : 18 (Tampereen yliopisto, 19.12.2023)
      This paper studies how Nordic multinational enterprises (MNEs) react to tax incentives generated by international corporate income tax rate differences and shift profit to low tax countries. A firm level panel data set ...

    • Promoting active transport through health information: evidence from a randomized controlled trial 

      Ahlvik, Lassi; Sahari, Anna
      FIT Working Paper : 16 (Tampereen yliopisto, 18.12.2023)
      The negative health impacts of passive transport can be substantial both from the individual point of view and with respect to public spending on health. We run a field experiment to study the effectiveness of information ...

    • Stairway to Heaven? Selection into Entrepreneurship, Income Mobility and Firm Performance 

      Harju, Jarkko; Juuti, Toni; Matikka, Tuomas
      FIT Working Paper : 17 (Tampereen yliopisto, 20.12.2023)
      Using detailed full-population data from Finland, we provide evidence on selection into entrepreneurship and the dynamic implications of establishing a new business. Individuals at the very top of the personal income ...

    • Tax Compliance in the Rental Housing Market: Evidence from a Field Experiment 

      Eerola, Essi; Kosonen, Tuomas; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Lyytikäinen, Teemu
      FIT Working Paper : 14 (Tampereen yliopisto, 23.06.2023)
      We study rental income tax compliance using novel third-party information and a large-scale randomized field experiment. The third-party information combines register data on the ownership and occupancy of apartments. The ...

    • Tax planning and investment responses to dividend taxation 

      Koivisto, Aliisa
      FIT Working Paper : 15 (Tampereen yliopisto, 01.09.2023)
      This study explores empirically how business owners respond to dividend taxes in a range of different margins including tax planning and investment. Using administrative tax data on all privately held Finnish corporations, ...

    • Tax Policy Design in a Hierarchical Model with Occupational Decisions 

      Castillo, Sebastian
      FIT Working Paper : 2 (Tampereen yliopisto, 22.11.2022)
      This study incorporates occupational decisions in a hierarchical model to investigate distortions in the tax policy design. The economy has two sectors, wage-earners and self-employment, where evasion is only possible in ...

    • Taxpayer response to greater progressivity: Evidence from personal income tax reform in Uganda 

      Jouste, Maria; Kaidu Barugahara, Tina; Okello Ayo, Joseph; Pirttilä, Jukka; Rattenhuber, Pia
      FIT Working Paper : 13 (Tampereen yliopisto, 09.06.2023)
      We evaluate a major personal income tax reform in Uganda that came into effect in 2012–13, contributing to the scarce literature on the effects of personal income tax reform on employees’ income in a low-income country in ...

    • The role of privately held firms in income inequality 

      Paukkeri, Tuuli; Ravaska, Terhi; Riihelä, Marja
      IFS Working Paper : 23/36 (Institute for Fiscal Studies, 10.11.2023)
      Business owners of privately held firms have multiple opportunities to decide how much taxable income to take out from their firm and how much to retain within the firm. However, undistributed profits within firms, i.e. ...

    • The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries 

      Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo Maria; Barcelo, Cristina; Gulyas, Andreas; Lombardi, Stefano; Saggio, Raffaele
      NBER Working Paper : 29727 (NBER, 02 / 2022)
      We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, ...

    • Twitter and Crime: The Effect of Social Movements on GenderBased Violence 

      Battisti, Michele; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Rude, Britta
      ifo Working Paper : 381 (ifo Institute, 31.10.2022)
      This paper asks whether social movements taking place on Twitter affect genderbased violence (GBV). Using Twitter data and machine learning methods, we construct a novel data set on the prevalence of Twitter conversations ...