The project highlights Finland as a solid example of effective and timely policy decisions due to availability of data. The latest report (April 1) provides insight on the latest developments in the labour market and for households and firms.
A recent study shows that pre-electoral coalitions (PEC) do not seem to have a large impact on coalescing parties’ seat shares. However, PECs can prevent large parties from receiving an absolute majority of seats. Additionally, PECs are common between parties of equal size and similar ideology, and when elections are disproportional or involve several parties.
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 same way as human capital and produced capital.
The objective of the student admissions reform is to streamline the transition to higher education and to improve the allocation of student places. In the monitoring study commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Culture, researchers from the Labour Institute for Economic Research (PT) and the VATT Institute for Economic Research examined whether the reform succeeded in its objectives. The study will be completed in spring 2022. This interim report presents provisional data on the study.
According to a recent study, political parties with more re-elected incumbent representatives fare better in coalitional bargaining. Incumbent representation is particularly useful when a party is in a disadvantaged position or when the bargaining environment is more complex.
To celebrate VATT’s 30th anniversary we are publishing a series of texts presenting our core fields of research. In this fifth part of the series, we are focusing on our research in social security and employment.
Automatic stabilization and additional support by the government helped to limit economic losses in 2020. The chosen support measures for 2021, including providing financing to fight the corona crisis, are adequate.
Poorer neighbourhoods are under-represented in Finnish municipal councils. This inequality in geographic representation also has policy implications as school closures are less likely in districts with better representation in the municipal council. High-income residents react to school closures by moving away from their neighbourhood. This may further exacerbate differences in geographic representation.
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 and economic inequality?
Weekly seminar
06 May 2021
Diego Battiston (University of Edinburg)
10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
Weekly seminar
22 April 2021
David Seim (Stockholm University)
10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
Weekly seminar
15 April 2021
Aspasia Bizopoulou (VATT)
10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
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