Marja Riihelä

Marja Riihelä

Senior Researcher, D.Soc.Sc.

Income distribution and inequality Taxation Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research

Senior researcher Marja Riihelä has focused her research on the issues of economic inequality. The studies deal with income and wealth differences and the factors behind them. Recent studies relate to the income persistence in different parts of the income distribution, particularly the persistence of poverty and persistence at the top of the distribution. She defended his PhD in economics at Tampere University in 2009.

Book chapter

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.

Research projects