Employment Effects of a Payroll-Tax Cut: Evidence from a Regional Tax Exemption Experiment

• Main Authors: Korkeamäki, Ossi, Uusitalo, Roope
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Tukeva; Northern Finland
• Online Access: https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/148390

In this paper we evaluate the effects of a regional experiment that reduced payroll taxes by 3-6 percentage points in Northern Finland for three years. We match each firm in the target region with a similar firm in the control region and estimate the effect of the payroll-tax reduction by comparing...