Jarkko Harju Visiting Researcher at ZEW

Jarkko Harju, PhD, was a visiting researcher in ZEW’s Department “Social Policy and Redistribution” from 15 to 17 October 2019. He is a research professor at the VATT Institute for Economic Research in Helsinki, Finland. His research focuses on public and labour economics. In his current work he studies firm responses to changes in value added and payroll taxes.

During his visit, he worked with ZEW researcher Professor Sebastian Siegloch on topics relating to tax incentives and firm investments in research and development. Moreover, Jarkko Harju talked about using payroll tax variation to unpack the black box of firm-level production in a Mannheim Applied Seminar on 16 October 2019.