Huttunen, Kristiina
[VerfasserIn]
;
Pirttila, Jukka
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Uusitalo, Roope
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Erschienen in:CESifo Working Paper Series ; No. 3043
Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (33 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.1605109
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments May 1, 2010 erstellt
Beschreibung:
Low-wage subsidies are often proposed as a solution to the unemployment problem among the low skilled. Yet the empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a Finnish payroll tax subsidy scheme, which is targeted at the employers of older, full-time, low-wage workers. The system's clear eligibility criteria open up an opportunity for a reliable estimation of the causal impacts of the subsidy, using a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach. Our results indicate that the subsidy system had no effects on the employment rate. However, it appears to have increased the probability of part-time workers obtaining full-time employment