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Labor Economics

  • How does an increase in unemployment benefits affect the length of unemployment?
  • How does child care support affect the decision of mothers take a job?
  • Are minorities discriminated in the labor market?
  • Does more education reduce crime?
  • How to best integrate immigrants?
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Labor economics seeks to answer questions such as those above. More generally, labor economists study the functioning of labor markets, and how different regulations affect labor market outcomes, such as the number and type of people employed, the wages they earn, and the kind of jobs they get.

The academically most interesting questions in labor economics are almost invariably also highly relevant from a policy perspective. Modern labor economists use increasingly detailed and large data sets, conduct randomized controlled trials, and employ sophisticated econometric tools to provide answers to causal questions.

Chair

Members

PhD Student

  • Olmo Silva

    LSE

    Free to Improve? The Impact of Free School Attendance in England (joint with Marco Bertoni and Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren)

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • Seminar

  • Arttu Kauhanen

    University of Helsinki

    Adverse Selection in the Finnish Pension System

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • PhD Seminar

  • Tuomas Matikka

    VATT

    Mass Layoffs and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Nokia Decline

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • Seminar

  • Samuel Solomon

    Yale University

    Social capital and occupational choice (with Jerry Montonen)

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • PhD Seminar

  • Aapo Stenhammar

    Aalto University

    The content of this event has not been announced yet. Please check back later.

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • Seminar

  • Salla Kalin

    University of Helsinki

    The content of this event has not been announced yet. Please check back later.

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • PhD Seminar

  • Gabriella Massenz

    IFN

    The content of this event has not been announced yet. Please check back later.

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • Seminar

  • Emmi Wilén

    University of Oulu

    The content of this event has not been announced yet. Please check back later.

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • PhD Seminar

  • Ellen Sahlström

    Aalto University

    The content of this event has not been announced yet. Please check back later.

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • PhD Seminar

  • Francois Gerard

    Queen Mary

    The content of this event has not been announced yet. Please check back later.

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • Seminar

  • Enrico Miglino

    Bank of Italy

    The content of this event has not been announced yet. Please check back later.

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • Seminar

  • Atte Pudas

    Aalto University

    The content of this event has not been announced yet. Please check back later.

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • PhD Seminar