Past Labour and Public Economics Seminars

     
 

 

 

Spring 2010
Autumn 2009
Spring 2009
Autumn 2008

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Spring 2010 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
January 20 Panu Kalmi (Aalto University)

Financial Participation in Finland: Incidence and Determinants (with Derek C. Jones, Takao Kato and Mikko Mäkinen)

February 10
seminar room 1
Kaisa Kotakorpi (University of Tampere) Pay for politicians and Candidate Selection: An Empirical Analysis (with Panu Poutvaara)
March 3 Tuomas Kosonen (VATT and University of Helsinki) What was actually cut in barbers' VAT cut?
March 24 Tomi Kyyrä (VATT) Early retirement policy in the presence of competing exit pathways: Lessons
from pension reforms in Finland

 
April 14 Janne Tukiainen (HECER and VATT) Local Government Coalition Formation and Political Decision Making: Evidence from Finnish Municipal Mergers
May 5 Alex Bryson (NIESR and LSE) Do Salaried Workers Perform Better Than Piece Rate Workers? (with Babatunde Buraimo and Rob Simmons)
May 26 Mikko Mäkinen (Aalto University)   HRM practices and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Finland (with Derek C. Jones, Panu Kalmi, and Takao Kato)

Autumn 2009 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
September 16 Antti Kauhanen (ETLA and Helsinki School of Economics) Incentive intensity and firm performance: a case study
September 30 Hanna Pesola (Helsinki School of Economics) Spillovers From Multinationals to Domestic Firms: An Empirical Analysis of the Profitability Effects of Labor Flows (with Pekka Ilmakunnas and Mika Maliranta)
Tuesday October 27
Seminar room 2

from 16.00 to 17.00
Tallamaria Maunu (University of Helsinki) The distribution of pension wealth in Finland
October 28 Jukka Pirttilä (Labour Institute of Economic Researh and University of Tampere) Public provision, commodity demand and hours of work: An empirical analysis (with Ilpo Suoniemi)
Tuesday
November 17
Thomas Aronsson (Umeå University) Conspicuous Leisure: Optimal Income Taxation when both Relative Consumption and Relative Leisure Matter (with Olof Johansson-Stenman )
November 18 Katariina Nilsson-Hakkala (Helsinki School of Economics, VATT) Offshored Job Tasks and Displaced Workers (with Kristiina Huttunen)
December 9 Darko Jus (CES, University of Munich) The Puzzle of Norwegian Oil Extraction

 

Spring 2009 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
January 21 Erkki Koskela (University of Helsinki and HECER) Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets (co-author Panu Poutvaara)
February 4 Roope Uusitalo (Government Institute for Economic Research) Are life-time jobs disappearing - evidence from lifetime employment histories (co-author Miikka Rokkanen)
February 25 Tomi Kyyrä (Government Institute for Economic Research) A distributional analysis of displacement costs in an economic depression and recovery (co-author Ossi Korkeamäki)
March 18 Elias Einiö (University of Helsinki and HECER) Technology and the Demand for Skills: Some Quasi-Experimental Evidence
April 8 Kristiina Huttunen (HECER and PT) Employment Effect of Low Wage Subsidies (co-authors Jukka Pirttilä and Roope Uusitalo)
April 29

Torsten Santavirta (Helsinki School of Economics and HECER)

Child evacuees during WWII: Evaluating the long term consequences of evacuating children from war adversities
May 27 Niku Määttänen (ETLA)  R&D Tax Credits: A General Equilibrium Analysis (joint work with Mika Maliranta)

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Autumn 2008 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
September 17 Ari Hyytinen (University of Jyväskylä) The return to entrepreneurship puzzle (joint with Pekka Ilmakunnas and Otto Toivanen)
October 8 Hanna Pesola (Helsinki School of Economics) International Trade and the Distribution of Wages
October 29 Jenni Pääkkönen (University of Helsinki) Growth in Transition
November 6 Peter Fredriksson (Institute for Labor Market Policy Evaluation, Uppsala) Do Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment? New Evidence on an Old Question (joint with Martin Söderström)
November 19 Markus Jäntti (Åbo Akademi) Family Background and Income during the Rise of the Welfare State: Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Men Born 1932-1968 (joint with Anders Björklund and Matthew Lindquist)
December 10

Tuomas Kosonen (VATT and University of Helsinki)

Optimal income taxation with extensive margin and provision of public goods

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