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  • Researcher introduction: research professor Tuomas Pekkarinen

    Blog 1.8.2022

    Researcher introduction: research professor Tuomas Pekkarinen

    We interviewed Tuomas Pekkarinen for our researcher introduction series. Read the text below to see what Tuomas is working on.

  • Researcher introduction: research leader Tuomas Matikka

    Blog 25.7.2022

    Researcher introduction: research leader Tuomas Matikka

    We interviewed Tuomas Matikka for our researcher introduction series. Read the text below to see what Tuomas is working on.

  • Researcher introduction: Florian Buhlmann

    Blog 14.7.2022

    Researcher introduction: Florian Buhlmann

    We interviewed visiting researcher Florian Buhlmann for our researcher introduction series. Read the text below to see what Florian is working on.

  • Researcher introduction: Annika Nivala

    Blog 16.6.2022

    Researcher introduction: Annika Nivala

    We interviewed Annika Nivala for our researcher introduction series. Read the text below to see what Annika is working on.

  • Researcher introduction: Nicola Mauri

    Blog 9.6.2022

    Researcher introduction: Nicola Mauri

    We interviewed visiting researcher Nicola Mauri for our researcher introduction series. Read the text below to see what Nicola is working on.

  • Researcher introduction: Terhi Ravaska

    Blog 17.5.2022

    Researcher introduction: Terhi Ravaska

    We start our researcher introduction series with specialist researcher Terhi Ravaska. Read the text below to see what Terhi is working on.

  • How were the day-care centres of the two-year preschool education trial selected?

    Blog 9.12.2021

    How were the day-care centres of the two-year preschool education trial selected?

    A unique trial on a longer period of preschool education is being carried out in Finland. In this article, we will talk about the background of the experiment and the methods employed to choose the day-care groups for treatment and control groups around Finland.

  • What works? Lessons from Active Labor Market Policy evaluations

    Blog 17.11.2021 Professor Andrea Weber

    What works? Lessons from Active Labor Market Policy evaluations

    The rapid restart of economies after the COVID-19 related lockdowns comes with challenges for the labor market. In search of solutions to these challenges, policy makers look at past experiences with Active Labor Market Policies (ALMPs). It appears that past findings have influenced policy decisi...

  • Location-specific measures are needed to reduce emissions from transport

    Blog 29.9.2021

    Location-specific measures are needed to reduce emissions from transport

    In terms of climate policy goals, achieving emission reductions in the transport sector is in principle simple: combustion engine vehicles must be driven significantly less than at present. In rural areas emissions per household remain large, but total emissions are greatest in urban areas. Diffe...

  • Global minimum corporate tax and reform of taxing rights between countries

    Blog 6.7.2021 Jonatan Kanervo, Seppo Kari, Emma Tuomi and Marika Viertola

    Global minimum corporate tax and reform of taxing rights  between countries

    The G7 countries reached preliminary agreement in June on a minimum corporate income tax and on a reform of how the taxing rights are distributed among countries. The G20 meeting in July will be more challenging. In the long term the change is unlikely to solve the problems of international corpo...

  • Spouses who work together - Evidence on relative income within households

    Blog 30.6.2021

    Spouses who work together - Evidence on relative income within households

    New research by Natalia Zinovyeva and Maryna Tverdostup examines why there are many more couples where men slightly out-earn women than couples in which women slightly out-earn men. Previous research has attributed this discrepancy to the existence of a ‘gender identity norm’ that prescribes a br...

  • Finland’s fuel tax does not particularly fall upon low-income households

    Blog 20.5.2021 Anna Sahari (VATT) ja Kimmo Palanne (VATT)

    Finland’s fuel tax does not particularly fall upon low-income households

    Emissions reduction targets in road transport are unlikely to be achieved without increasing the cost of driving for petrol and diesel-powered passenger cars. Fuel taxes are an effective means to reduce emissions and they do not particularly fall upon low-income households. Recycling tax revenue ...

  • Biodiversity loss is not visible in the indicators used in economic policy planning

    Blog 18.2.2021 Anni Huhtala (VATT)

    Biodiversity loss is not visible in the indicators used in economic policy planning

    The main message of the Dasgupta Review is that the economy does not exist separate from nature. The activities of people, households and companies are based on the management of assets. It causes problems that nature has not been considered an asset, capital goods, and a source of wealth in the ...

  • The Finnish welfare state succeeded well in softening the impact of the coronavirus crisis on low incomes and inequality

    Blog 20.1.2021 Tomi Kyyrä (VATT), Jukka Pirttilä (HY ja VATT) ja Terhi Ravaska (VATT)

    The Finnish welfare state succeeded well in softening the impact of the coronavirus crisis on low incomes and inequality

    Based on the up-to-date data of the Helsinki GSE Situation Room, we have been able to monitor the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and restriction measures on various groups of employees and companies. But what kind of an impact has the coronavirus crisis had on disposable income, low incomes ...

  • Overhaul of international corporate taxation: A Finnish perspective

    Blog 25.6.2020 Seppo Kari, Ilpo Kauppinen, Olli Ropponen

    Overhaul of international corporate taxation: A Finnish perspective

    International corporate taxation is in need of an overhaul but none of the reform proposals made so far provides an entirely satisfactory solution to the problem. The Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) proposed by the European Union would change the fundamentals of the international t...