The euro crisis escalated again in the summer and the global economic recovery has been delayed; an upswing is not expected until mid-2013 at the earliest Finland’s GDP will grow 0.5 per cent in 2012; next year growth will remain at 1 per cent due to weak exports and consumption Finland’s consumer prices will rise […]
When a municipality chooses whether to produce a service by its own work force or to acquire it from a private producer, it affects the funding of the earnings-related pension system of municipal sector employees, and that has repercussions on all other municipalities and also on the private sector pension system. We study how the […]
Household structures are changing throughout Nordic and other developed countries. These changes – couples postponing childbearing, increasing shares of divorced and other single mothers and fathers, more people in old age living alone – will have important implications for the sustainability of the Nordic welfare model, whose essential features are related to households and families. […]
The study assesses the current economic position of the mandatory private sector pension system TyEL, the impact of pension policy measures aimed to lengthen working careers and the financial sustainability of the TyEL system under economic and demographic uncertainty. Moreover, the project enhances and improves the numerical OLG models and stochastic lifecycle models that can […]
ANCIEN is a research project financed under the 7th EU Research Framework Programme. The project includes 20 partners from EU member states, started in January 2009 and will last 44 months. ANCIEN concerns the future of long-term care for the elderly in Europe. The questions asked in ANCIEN are as follows. How will need, demand, […]
This study on the macroeconomic effects of fiscal devaluation analyzes the outcomes of a cut in employers’ social security contributions and increase in VAT rate. The aim of the policy is to correct external imbalances and to boost growth, employment and competitiveness. The outcomes of the measure are simulated using the multi-country macroeconomic model Nigem, […]
The euro crisis escalated again in the summer and the global economic recovery has been delayed; an upswing is not expected until mid-2013 at the earliest Finland’s GDP will grow 0.5 per cent in 2012; next year growth will remain at 1 per cent due to weak exports and consumption Finland’s consumer prices will rise […]
When a municipality chooses whether to produce a service by its own work force or to acquire it from a private producer, it affects the funding of the earnings-related pension system of municipal sector employees, and that has repercussions on all other municipalities and also on the private sector pension system. We study how the […]
Household structures are changing throughout Nordic and other developed countries. These changes – couples postponing childbearing, increasing shares of divorced and other single mothers and fathers, more people in old age living alone – will have important implications for the sustainability of the Nordic welfare model, whose essential features are related to households and families. […]
The study assesses the current economic position of the mandatory private sector pension system TyEL, the impact of pension policy measures aimed to lengthen working careers and the financial sustainability of the TyEL system under economic and demographic uncertainty. Moreover, the project enhances and improves the numerical OLG models and stochastic lifecycle models that can […]
ANCIEN is a research project financed under the 7th EU Research Framework Programme. The project includes 20 partners from EU member states, started in January 2009 and will last 44 months. ANCIEN concerns the future of long-term care for the elderly in Europe. The questions asked in ANCIEN are as follows. How will need, demand, […]
This study on the macroeconomic effects of fiscal devaluation analyzes the outcomes of a cut in employers’ social security contributions and increase in VAT rate. The aim of the policy is to correct external imbalances and to boost growth, employment and competitiveness. The outcomes of the measure are simulated using the multi-country macroeconomic model Nigem, […]
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