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Only a small fraction of retail trade companies opted to pay newly hired workers under the age of 25 subminimum wages, after policy change. This finding suggests that prevailing wage norms significantly influence firms’ wage setting.

FIT organises an international “Wealth Workshop” on January 23 – 24, 2025 at Tampere University.

Daniel Waldenström from IFN will deliver a plenary lecture in the workshop.

The event is by invitation only.

On September 13, 2024 Kwabena Adu-Ababio defended his doctoral dissertation “Essays on Social Assistance and Tax Administration in Selected Developing Economies” at University of Helsinki. The essays in the field of development and public economics discuss issues related to fiscal policy, and how households and firms are affected depending on the policy at play in emerging economies.

The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research (FIT) has a strong presence in the 80th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance in Prague on 21-23 August 2024. FIT researchers have contributed to 23 high quality research papers presented at the conference.

Doctoral researcher Kwabena Adu-Ababio reports on his scholarly visit to the University of Michigan in 2023.

In Finland, many doctoral students have the possibility to include an academic year or semester in another university to their doctoral studies.

Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar TAPES: Tax and Transfer Systems is organised in Helsinki, Finland on 12 – 14 June 2024 by NBER and VATT.

The seminar is by invitation only.

FIT proudly presents the public economics summer course with top researchers and excellent partners.

FIT’s new postdoctoral research fellow introduces himself.

The Workshop in Labour Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality was organised on 24 – 25 August 2023 in Helsinki. The keynotes speakers were Attila Lindner and Andrea Weber. The seminar was fully booked.

The next WEI conference in Helsinki is scheduled for 2025 (tbc).

More Finns annually emigrate from the country than return to it. In this article, we will use economic research and comprehensive new data to evaluate the impact of taxation on international migration, assess the situation in Finland and reflect on the policy implications.