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Bockerman, Petri - 2019

We examine the effects of a comprehensive school reform on mental health. The reform postponed the tracking of students into vocational and academic schools from age 11 to age 16. The reform was implemented gradually across Finnish municipalities between 1972 and 1977. We use...

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Service Imports, Workforce Composition, and Firm Performance : Evidence from Finnish Microdata

Ariu, Andrea - 2019

This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, work-force composition, and firm characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use...

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Voice at Work

Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job...

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Leaky Bucket in the Real World : Estimating Inequality Aversion Using Survey Data

Pirttila, Jukka; Uusitalo, Roope - 2021

Existing evidence of inequality aversion relies on data from class-room experiments where subjects face hypothetical questions. This paper estimates the magnitude of inequality aversion using representative survey data, with questions related to the real-economy situations the respondents face....

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The Looks of a Winner : Beauty, Gender, and Electoral Success

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2007

We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral campaigns. Our investigation is based on visual assessments of 1,929 Finnish political candidates from 10,011 respondents (of which 3,708 were Finnish). An increase in beauty by one standard...

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Gallup Democracy in Exercising the NATO Membership Option : The Cases of Finland and Sweden

Kanniainen, Vesa - 2022

The paper asks whether the exercising of the NATO membership option is justified for Finland and Sweden in the light of … towards the membership. In both countries, the majority of people turned to favor the membership within 2-3 months. Finland …. The Turkish intervention in the membership process after the membership applications of Finland and Sweden were delivered …

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Term limits: do they really affect fiscal policy choices?

Dalle Nogare, Chiara; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2008

According to reputational models of political economy, a term limit may change the behavior of a chief executive because he does not have to stand for election. We test this hypothesis in a sample of 52 countries over the period 1977-2000, using government spending, social and welfare spending...

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Productive government expenditure and economic growth

Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2008

We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...

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Economic and political determinants of budget deficits in the European Union: a dynamic random coefficient approach

Bayar, Ali; Smeets, Bram - 2009

This paper formulates a dynamic Random Coefficient Model (RCM) to consider a set of popular determinants of public deficits in the EU-15 over the period 1971-2006, both at a country-specific level and from a population-wide perspective. Although the extent of government deficits and debt has...

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Taxation, corruption and the exchange rate regime

Hefeker, Carsten - 2009

The paper analyzes the relation between institutional quality, such as corruption, in a country and its monetary regime. It is shown that a credibly fixed exchange rate to a low inflation country, like a currency board, can reduce corruption and improve the fiscal system. A monetary union,...

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