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 project explores the impact of technological change on private-sector workforce and, especially, occupational structures in Finland. The first task of the project is to establish a comprehensive picture of the changes having occurred in occupational structures, and to also unravel major development trends behind these changes. This work utilizes approaches recently suggested by, inter […]
The project studies how the features of incentive pay plans affect their productivity effects using both large scale firm-level data sets and case studies. The results can be used to design more effective incentive plans. The main research questions are: How do the features of incentive plans affect their productivity effects? Have the incentive plans […]
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 project explores the impact of technological change on private-sector workforce and, especially, occupational structures in Finland. The first task of the project is to establish a comprehensive picture of the changes having occurred in occupational structures, and to also unravel major development trends behind these changes. This work utilizes approaches recently suggested by, inter […]
The project studies how the features of incentive pay plans affect their productivity effects using both large scale firm-level data sets and case studies. The results can be used to design more effective incentive plans. The main research questions are: How do the features of incentive plans affect their productivity effects? Have the incentive plans […]
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