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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).

The keynote address given by Professor Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan) at the inaugural seminar of The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research (FIT), University of Tampere, Finland, on September 1, 2022.

Tax policy design aims to vanish evasion incentives but can also affect agents’ occupational choices. Tax schemes, auditing, and the size of the IRS affect agents’ decisions, and the government must be aware of this. This article summarizes a study of the optimal tax policy design when evasion and occupational decision coexist.

You are invited to participate in a FIT research project and answer a survey on consumption patterns.

The survey is a part of research project focused on studying consumption behavior and how it is affected by consumption taxes and other policies.