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? What are the social as opposed to private benefits of educating more engineers? What are the social and economic consequences of job loss? Does job protection increase or decrease unemployment?
Labor Economics Research Group
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.
Members
Roope Uusitalo
Chair of the group, Professor
Manuel Bagues
Member, Affiliated / visiting
Tolga Benzer
Member, PhD student
Artturi Björk
Member, PhD student
Cecilia Borgman
Member, PhD student
Lauro Carnicelli
Member, PhD student
Kristiina Huttunen
Member, Research Professor
Pekka Ilmakunnas
Member, Professor Emeritus
Ramin Izadi
Member, PhD student
Laura Jernström
Member, PhD student
Arttu Kahelin
Member, PhD student
Arttu Kauhanen
Member, PhD student
Aapo Kivinen
Member, PhD student
Eugen Koev
Member, PhD student
Mika Kortelainen
Member, Chief Researcher
Tomi Kyyrä
Member, Research Professor
Juuso Mäkinen
Member, PhD student
Maarit Olkkola
Member, PhD student
Tuomas Pekkarinen
Member, Research Professor
Jussipekka Salo
Member, PhD student
Matti Sarvimäki
Member, Professor
Salla Simola
Member, PhD student
Marko Terviö
Member, Professor
Lassi Tervonen
Member, PhD student
Claudia Troccoli
Member, PhD student
Natalia Zinovyeva
Member, Affiliated / visiting
Upcoming Seminars
17 Sep 2019
Labor and Public
Divided they Fall. Fragmented Parliaments and Government Stability (with Davide Cipullo and Luca Repetto)
- Felipe Carozzi
- LSE
1 Oct 2019
Labor and Public
Optimal taxation of capital income with heterogeneous rates of return
- Aart Gerritsen
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
15 Oct 2019
Labor and Public
Firm- and individual-level responses to labor immigration
- Cristina Bratu
- Aalto University
29 Oct 2019
Labor and Public
First year of the Finnish Basic Income Experiment
- Jouko Verho
- VATT
12 Nov 2019
Labor and Public
TBA
- Kristiina Huttunen
- VATT and Aalto University
26 Nov 2019
Labor and Public
The Impact of Local Property Taxation on Firm Growth and Location: Evidence from Flanders
- Sander Ramboer
- VATT
10 Dec 2019
Labor and Public
TBA
- David Seim
- Stockholm University
