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
roope.uusitalo at helsinki.fi
Bizopoulou Aspasia
Member,
Post-doc
aspasia.bizopoulou at vatt.fi
Homepage
Manuel Bagues
Member,
Affiliated / visiting
manuel.bagues at aalto.fi
Homepage
Andres Barrios Fernandez
Member,
Post-doc
andres.barrios-fernandez at vatt.fi
Homepage
Tolga Benzer
Member,
PhD student
tolga.benzer at aalto.fi
Homepage
Constanza Biavaschi
Member, University Researcher
Cecilia Blomster
Member,
PhD student
cecilia.blomster at hanken.fi
Flavio Hafner
Member,
Post-doc
flavio.hafner at aalto.fi
Homepage
Kristiina Huttunen
Member,
Associate Professor
kristiina.huttunen at aalto.fi
Homepage
Pekka Ilmakunnas
Member,
Professor Emeritus
pekka.ilmakunnas at aalto.fi
Homepage
Ramin Izadi
Member,
PhD student
ramin.izadi at aalto.fi
Laura Jernström
Member,
PhD student
laura.jernstrom at helsinki.fi
Martti Kaila
Member,
PhD student
martti.kaila at helsinki.fi
Homepage
Aino Kalmbach
Member,
PhD student
aino.kalmbach at aalto.fi
Antti Kauhanen
Member,
Research director
antti.kauhanen at etla.fi
Ilpo Kauppinen
Member,
Senior researcher
ilpo.kauppinen at vatt.fi
Homepage
Eugen Koev
Member,
PhD student
evgenii.koev at helsinki.fi
Isa Kuosmanen
Member,
PhD student
isa.kuosmanen at helsinki.fi
Tomi Kyyrä
Member,
Research Professor
tomi.kyyra at vatt.fi
Homepage
Juuso Mäkinen
Member,
PhD student
juuso.p.makinen at aalto.fi
Maarit Olkkola
Member,
PhD student
maarit.olkkola at aalto.fi
Homepage
Yao Pan
Member,
Professor
yao.pan at aalto.fi
Tuomas Pekkarinen
Member,
Research Professor
tuomas.pekkarinen at vatt.fi
Homepage
Hanna Pesola
Member,
Chief Researcher
hanna.pesola at vatt.fi
Homepage
Jussipekka Salo
Member,
PhD student
jussipekka.salo at helsinki.fi
Matti Sarvimäki
Member,
Professor
matti.sarvimaki at aalto.fi
Homepage
Salla Simola
Member,
PhD student
salla.simola at aalto.fi
Homepage
Aapo Stenhammar
Member,
PhD student
aapo.kivinen at aalto.fi
Tuomo Suhonen
Member,
Senior researcher
tuomo.suhonen at vatt.fi
Homepage
Ossi Tahvonen
Member,
PhD student
ossi.tahvonen at helsinki.fi
Homepage
Marko Terviö
Member,
Professor
marko.tervio at aalto.fi
Homepage
Lassi Tervonen
Member,
PhD student
lassi.tervonen at aalto.fi
Claudia Troccoli
Member,
PhD student
claudia.troccoli at aalto.fi
Jouko Verho
Member,
Senior researcher
jouko.verho at vatt.fi
Natalia Zinovyeva
Member,
Affiliated / visiting
natalia.zinovyeva at aalto.fi
Homepage
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
The Crime Ladder: Estimating the Impact of Different Punishments on Defendant Outcomes (with Martti Kaila and Emily Nix)
- 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
RESCHEDULED TO SPRING 2020
- David Seim
- Stockholm University
12 Dec 2019
Labor and Public
Labor and Public Economics PhD Workshop
- Labor and Public Economics PhD Workshop
10 Dec 2019
Labor and Public
Siblings’ Effects on College and Major Choice: Evidence from Chile, Croatia and Sweden
- Andrés Barrios Fernandez
- VATT
26 May 2020
Labor and Public
- Labor/Public PhD workshop
14 Apr 2020
Labor and Public
TBA
- Hanna Virtanen
- Etla
28 Apr 2020
Labor and Public
Health Information Technology and Quality of Prescribing
Organized via ZOOM
- Petri Böckerman
- JYU
12 May 2020
Labor and Public
Bookworms, nerds and alpha males: the impact of skill bundling on labor market outcomes
Organized via ZOOM
- Ramin Izadi
- Aalto University
15 Sep 2020
Labor and Public
Labor market competition, wages, and worker mobility
- Flavio Hafner
- Aalto University
29 Sep 2020
Labor and Public
The Rise of For-Profit Higher Education: A General Equilibrium Analysis (with Ioana Schiopu (ESADE Business School))
- Ciprian Domnisoru
- Aalto University
13 Oct 2020
Labor and Public
Love Thy (Elected) Neighbor? Residential segregation, political representation and local public goods
- Janne Tukiainen
- University of Turku/VATT
27 Oct 2020
Labor and Public
Can a wage subsidy system help reduce 50 per cent youth unemployment? (joint with Jukka Pirttilä)
- Amina Ebrahim
- UNU-WIDER
10 Nov 2020
Labor and Public
Pre-college skills and educational wage differentials
- Tuomas Pekkarinen
- VATT
24 Nov 2020
Labor and Public
Sibling spillovers in education: Evidence from parallel natural experiments
- Hanna Virtanen
- Aalto University
8 Dec 2020
Labor and Public
The Advantage of Incumbents in Coalitional Bargaining (with Janne Tukiainen)
- Jaakko Meriläinen
- ITAM
1 Dec 2020
Labor and Public
Labor/Public PhD workshop
9 Mar 2021
Labor and Public
Regulating Conglomerates: Evidence From an Energy Conservation Program in China
- Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato
- Duke University
23 Mar 2021
Labor and Public
Commuting time and the gender gap in labor market participation
- Jordi Jofre-Monseny
- Universitat de Barcelona and IEB
6 Apr 2021
Labor and Public
Accounting for Business Income in Measuring Top Income Shares: Integrated Accrual Approach Using Individual and Firm Data from Norway
- Annette Alstadsaeter
- Norwegian University of Life Sciences
18 May 2021
Labor and Public
An Economical Business-Cycle Model
- Pascal Michaillat
- Brown University
1 Jun 2021
Labor and Public
The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections
- Zohal Hessami
- Mannheim
20 Apr 2021
Labor and Public
The Labour Market Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns: Evidence from Ghana
- Simone Schotte
- UNU-WIDER
4 May 2021
Labor and Public
Re-Evaluating Technologies’ Effects on Work
- Joonas Tuhkuri
- MIT
2 Jun 2021
Labor and Public
Labor and Public PhD Workshop organized by Helsinki GSE and FDPE
27 Sep 2021
Labor and Public
Helsinki GSE/FDPE Labor and Public Economics PhD Workshop
7 Sep 2021
Labor and Public
Behavioral Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment
- Simon Wiederhold
- Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
21 Sep 2021
Labor and Public
Narrowing Distances between Workers from Disadvantaged Areas and Jobs
- Naomi Gershoni
- Ben-Gurion University
5 Oct 2021
Labor and Public
Do firms really want to pay lower wages? Evidence from a subminimum wage experiment (co-authors Petri Böckerman, Tuomas Kosonen and Henri Keränen)
- Toni Juuti
- PT
19 Oct 2021
Labor and Public
Overcoming Credit Constraints and Migrating Out of Rural and Economically Distressed America
- Jacob Bastian
- Rutgers University
2 Nov 2021
Labor and Public
Who Works Where and Why? Parental Networks and the Labor Market
- Shmuel San
- Hebrew University
16 Nov 2021
Labor and Public
The incidence of housing allowance: Quasi-experimental evidence
- Essi Eerola
- VATT
30 Nov 2021
Labor and Public
Skills, Mismatch, and Labor Market Search (with Arnaud Maurel, Andrew Shephard and Pengpeng Xiao)
- Ciprian Domnisoru
- Aalto University
14 Dec 2021
Labor and Public
Mortgage Debt and Household Expenditure: Evidence From a Debt Relief Program
- Arnaldur Stefansson
- Uppsala University
5 Oct 2021
Labor and Public
Do firms really want to pay lower wages? Evidence from a subminimum wage experiment (with Petri Böckerman, Tuomas Kosonen, and Henri Keränen)
- Toni Juuti
- PT
20 Dec 2021
Labor and Public
Labor and Public Economics PhD Workshop
22 Feb 2022
Labor and Public
Childcare, skills, and the labor market (with Juuso Mäkinen)
- Mikko Silliman (Harvard University)
22 Mar 2022
Labor and Public
Research productivity and the gender gap in scientific publication careers (with Christoph Hedtrich)
- Flavio Hafner (Aalto University)
19 Apr 2022
Labor and Public
Public and Parental Investments and Children’s Skill Formation (with Rasmus Landersø, Dorthe Bleses, Philip Dale, Anders Højen, Laura Justice)
- Miriam Gensowski (Rockwool Foundation Research Unit)
17 May 2022
Labor and Public
Child Development and age at enrollment in daycare (with Vibeke Myrup Jensen & Sarah Sander)
- Mette Gørtz (University of Copenhagen)
8 Feb 2022
Labor and Public
Paying Moms to Stay Home: Short and Long Run Effects on Children and Mothers
- Tuomas Kosonen (VATT)
8 Mar 2022
Labor and Public
The final straw: High school dropout for marginal students
- Martin Eckhoff Andresen (University of Oslo)
5 Apr 2022
Labor and Public
Ability and Capital
- Spencer Bastani (IFAU)
3 May 2022
Labor and Public
Pay Transparency and Gender Equality
- Stefania Simion (University of Bristol)
31 May 2022
Labor and Public
TBA
- Niels Johannesen (University of Copenhagen)
31 Mar 2022
Labor and Public
Labor & Public PhD Workshop
7 Jun 2022
Labor and Public
TBA
- Erik Wengström (Lund University and Hanken School of Economics)
8 Jun 2022
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