Tarkastelemme vapaaehtoisen eläkevakuutussäästämisen ja sen verotuksen vaikutusta eläkkeelle siirtymiseen. Tutkimuksen teoreettisessa osassa kuvataan ensin, miten eläkevakuutussäästämisen verokohtelu vaikutti eläkkeelle siirtymisen taloudellisiin kannusteisiin ennen vuotta 2005...

A majority of older Finns withdraw from employment via early retirement schemes years before the statutory retirement age. Over the past 15 years, a series of policy reforms have been introduced to reduce the widespread use of early exit pathways. By exploiting variation in eligibility rules...

In order to shed light on the consequences of the ongoing financial crisis, ETLA conducted two surveys at the end of October 2008. The firm survey targeted firms employing at least 10 persons in Finland (2,017 observations with a response rate of 33%) and the consumer survey targeted...

This paper describes the main features of a model developed for fore-casting economic developments, energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions in the EU area and Finland as well as for simulating the economic impacts of EU climate policy. Climate policy analysis necessitates a model of the whole...