Marja Riihelä

Marja Riihelä

Senior Researcher, D.Soc.Sc.

Research areas: inequality poverty income mobility the prolongation of poverty income and wealth tax progressivity

Ongoing projects: Work, Inequality and Public Policy

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Tel. +358 295 519 442

Social security, taxation and inequality

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Marja Riihelä is a senior researcher in the Social security, taxation and inequality research area. She has researched trends in economic inequality and poverty in Finland. Her areas of expertise also include household consumption and indirect taxes. Her recent research is on income mobility. Marja gained her PhD in economics from the University of Tampere in 2009.

Selected articles

Jäntti, M., Riihelä, M., Sullström, R. and Tuomala, M. (2010) Trends in Top Income Shares in Finland, in A.B. Atkinson and T. Piketty (eds.) Top Incomes, A Global Perspective, Oxford University Press.