PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

The decentralization of public employment services and local governments’ responses to incentives. Journal of Economic Geography, forthcoming. (with Jeremias Nieminen & Ohto Kanninen) (https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbad027)

A tale of two trade-offs: Effects of opening pathways from vocational to higher education (with Ollikainen, J.),  Economics Letters, 2021, vol.205. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109945).

Determinants of prescription opioid use: Population-based evidence from Finland (with Böckerman, P., Haapanen, M., Hakulinen, C., & Maczulskij, T.), Addiction, 2020, vol. 116 (1): 170-175. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/add.15071)

The intergenerational effects of parental higher education: Evidence from changes in university accessibility (with T. Suhonen),  Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 176: 195-217. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2019.07.001)

R&D subsidies and productivity in SMEs (with J. Huovari), Small business economics, 2015, 45(4): 805-823. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-015-9658-9)

BOOK CHAPTERS

Haapanen, M. and Karhunen, H. (2017). Working while in a university: Does it mean greater attachment to the regional labour market? “Where do smart people go? Graduate migration and regional development: an international perspective”, Edward Elgar in the New Horizons in Regional Science Series. (eds. by Jonathan Corcoran & Alessandra Faggian).

WORKING PAPERS AND REPORTS

The effects of working while studying in higher education. Interim report. Publications of the Government’s analysis, assessment and research activities 2023:34 (with Eetu Isotalo, Hannu Karhunen, Juha Tuomala, Taina Saarinen & Anne Virtanen).

Systematic Review of Active Labor Market Policies’ Effects on Immigrants’ Employment. Publications of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment 2022:27 (with Sanni Kiviholma).

Behavior and Effectiveness of Decentralized Employment Offices. LIER Working paper 332 (with Jeremias Nieminen & Ohto Kanninen).

Modeling Family Leave Policies. Publications of the Government´s analysis, assessment and research activities. 2020:20 (with Carnicell, L., Kanninen, O., Kosonen, T., & Ravaska, T.).

Economic Forecasts

• 9.4.2021 – Still Waiting for the Post-Crisis Boom – Stronger Growth Extends Over Two Years
• 28.9.2020 – Recovery of trade partners determines the growth of Finnish economy
• 10.4.2020 – Finland stopped – a fast recovery from the crisis might still be possible
• 17.9.2019 – Economic forecast Autumn 2019
• 10.4.2019 – Uncertainty weighs on economic growth – Finland has adjusted well to occupational restructuring
• 11.9.2018 – Weakening boom reduces unemployment at an unanticipated rate Employment growth differentiated by age group
• 11.4.2018 – Strong Growth Continues – Finland Wasn’t a Hopeless Case, After All

Working Papers

• 344 – Regulating Labor Immigration: The Effects of Lifting Labor Market Testing*
• 339 – Debt Burden of Job Loss in a Nordic Welfare State
• 337 – The Decentralization of Public Employment Services and Local Governments’ Responses to Incentives*
• 332 – Behavior and Effectiveness of Decentralized Employment Offices
• 329 – The long shadow of high stakes exams: Evidence from discontinuities