Empirical Microeconomics (EME)

The Empirical Microeconomics research group conducts research across various domains within economics, including labor economics, health economics, economics of education, and regional economics. Our empirical research serves a dual purpose: it enhances our understanding of individual-level decision-making and outcomes, while also contributing to the assessment and development of economic policies.

Overview

Core fields of research

Sustainable business and economics

Physical activity, health and wellbeing

Research areas

Policy-Relevant Economics and Competiveness of Economy

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Faculty

School of Business and Economics

Research group description

The group often leverages comprehensive register-based panel datasets encompassing individuals, their families, and employers. These datasets offer a vast repository of information pertaining to economic choices and their subsequent outcomes.

Our particular areas of interest often focus on the development of human capital, the evolution of employment and earnings trajectories, as well as the examination of health-related outcomes and behaviors.

Current

Groups

Members

Research group

Group leaders

Petri Böckerman

Professor

Members

Postdoctoral Researcher

External members

Hannu Tervo

Professor (emeritus)

University of Jyväskylä

Jussi Heikkilä

Research Fellow

University of Jyväskylä

Publications

Publication

2024

The effects of the decentralization of collective bargaining on wages and wage dispersion : Evidence from the Finnish forest and IT industries

British Journal of Industrial Relations.

Kauhanen, Antti

Publication

2024

The incidence and effects of decentralized wage bargaining in Finland

Journal of Labor Research.

Kauhanen, Antti

Maczulskij, Terhi

Riukula, Krista

Publication

2024

Transmission of Mental Disorders in Adolescent Peer Networks

JAMA Psychiatry.

Alho, Jussi

Gutvilig, Mai

Niemi, Ripsa

Komulainen, Kaisla

Böckerman, Petri

Webb, Roger T.

Elovainio, Marko

Hakulinen, Christian

Publication

2023

Association of accelerometer‐measured physical activity and midlife income : A Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study

Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports.

Junttila, Hanna Elina

Vaaramo, Mikko Matias

Huikari, Sanna Martta

Kari, Jaana Tuulikki

Leinonen, Anna‐Maiju

Farrahi, Vahid

Korpelainen, Raija

Korhonen, Marko Juhani

Publication

2023

Couples' joint retirement by household type : Evidence from Finland

Labour.

Haapanen, Mika

Pehkonen, Jaakko

Seppälä, Ville

Publication

2023

Dark Passage : Mental Health Consequences of Parental Death

American Journal of Health Economics.

Böckerman, Petri

Haapanen, Mika

Jepsen, Christopher

Publication

2023

Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood : a nationwide population-based register study

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Böckerman, Petri

Haapanen, Mika

Jepsen, Christopher

Publication

2023

Effect of Information Intervention on Prescribing Practice for Neuropathic Pain in Older Patients : A Nationwide Register-Based Study

Drugs and Aging.

Ahomäki, Iiro

Böckerman, Petri

Pehkonen, Jaakko

Saastamoinen, Leena

Publication

2023

Effects of rehabilitative psychotherapy on labour market success : Evaluation of a nationwide programme

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.

Peutere, Laura

Ravaska, Terhi

Bӧckerman, Petri

Vӓӓnӓnen, Ari

Virtanen, Pekka

Publication

2023

Essays on the role of public employment services in labour market matching

JYU dissertations.

Huuskonen, Jussi

Publication

2023

Family Affair? : Long-Term Economic and Mental Effects of Spousal Cancer

IZA Discussion Papers. IZA Institute of Labor Economics.

Böckerman, Petri

Kortelainen, Mika

Salokangas, Henri

Vaalavuo, Maria

Publication

2023

Family-Related Life Events as Predictors of Labor Market Marginalization Trajectories : A Cohort Study of Swedish Twins

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Wang, Mo

Raza, Auriba

Narusyte, Jurgita

Silventoinen, Karri

Böckerman, Petri

Svedberg, Pia

Ropponen, Annina

Empirical Microeconomics (EME)

Research group description

Jyväskylä International Macro and Finance (JyIMaF)

Strategy and Entrepreneurship