Publications
Articles in peer-refereed journals
The effects of unemployment assistance on unemployment exits, International Tax and Public Finance, 2023, 30:1457–1480.
The effects of employers' disability and unemployment costs on benefit inflows (with Juha Tuomala), Labour Economics, 2023, 85:102434.
Technology, labor market institutions and early retirement (with Naomitsu Yashiro, Hyunjeong Hwang and Juha Tuomala). Economic Policy, 2022, 37:811-849.
The effects of unemployment benefit duration: Evidence from residual benefit duration (with Hanna Pesola), Labour Economics, 2020, 65:101859.
The effects of UI benefits on unemployment and subsequent outcomes: Evidence from a kinked benefit rule (with Hanna Pesola), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82:1135-1160.
Long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits for older workers (with Hanna Pesola), Labour Economics, 2020, 62:101777.
The spike at benefit exhaustion: The role of measurement error in benefit eligibility (with Hanna Pesola and Jouko Verho), Labour Economics, 2019, 60:75-83.
Does subsidized part-time employment help unemployed workers to find full-time employment? (with José M. Arranz and Carlos García-Serrano), Labour Economics, 2019, 56:68-83.
Does experience rating reduce sickness and disability claims? Evidence from policy kinks (with Tuuli Paukkeri), Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 61:178-192.
Early retirement policy in the presence of competing exit pathways: Evidence from pension reforms in Finland, Economica, 2015, 82:46-78.
A distributional analysis of earnings losses of displaced workers in an economic depression and recovery (with Ossi Korkeamäki), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76:565-588.
On the reliability of retrospective information in European household panel (with Ralf Wilke), Empirical Economics, 2014, 46:1473-1493.
The effect of receiving supplementary UI benefits on unemployment duration (with Pierpaolo Parrotta and Michael Rosholm), Labour Economics, 2013, 21:122-133.
Institutional rules, labour demand and retirement through disability programme participation (with Ossi Korkeamäki), Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25:439-468.
Partial unemployment insurance benefits and the transition rate to regular work, European Economic Review, 2010, 54:911-930.
Marginal effects for competing risks models with piecewise constant hazards, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71:539-565.
To search or not to search? The effects of UI benefit extension for the older unemployed (with Virve Ollikainen), Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92:2048-2070.
The micro-level dynamics of declining labour share: Lessons from the Finnish great leap (with Mika Maliranta), Industrial and Corporate Change, 2008, 17:1147-1172.
Estimating equilibrium search models from Finnish Data, Finnish Economic Papers, 2007, 20:139-165.
Reduction in the long-term unemployment of the elderly: A success story from Finland (with Ralf A. Wilke), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2007, 5:154-182.
A gender wage gap decomposition for matched employer-employee data (with Ossi Korkeamäki), Labour Economics, 2006, 13:611-638.
The gender wage gap and sex segregation in Finland (with Ossi Korkeamäki), Finnish Economic Papers, 2005, 18:57-71.
Household economic incentives, the unemployment trap and the probability of finding a job (with Pasi Holm and Juha Rantala), International Tax and Public Finance, 1999, 6:361-378.
Other publications in English
The corona crisis and household income: The case of a generous welfare state (with Jukka Pirttilä ja Terhi Ravaska). VATT Mimeo 61, 2021.
The labor market in Finland, 2000-2018 (with Hanna Pesola). IZA World of Labor 2020: 421v2.
Unemployment insurance in Finland: A review of recent changes and empirical evidence on behavioural responses (with Hanna Pesola and Aarne Rissanen), VATT Research Reports 184, 2017.
Studies on wage differentials and labour market transitions, VATT Research Report 133, 2007 (PhD thesis).
Evolution of inequality in the Finnish labour market, 1988-1996, in Down from the heavens, up from the ashes, eds Jorma Kalela, Jaakko Kiander, Ullamaija Kivikuru, Heikka A. Loikkanen and Jussi Simpura, VATT Publication 27:6, 2001.
Welfare differentials and inequality in the Finnish labour market over the 1990s recession, VATT Research Report 68, 2000.
Post-unemployment wages and economic incentives to exit from unemployment, VATT Research Report 56, 1999 (Licentiate thesis).