It is possible to use detailed company-level data and aggregate data of companies and employees to study various economic policy measures (tax changes, subsidies). Examples of earlier research:

  • Within the scope of the corporate income tax exemption study, the impact of the corporate income tax reform carried out in 2000 on the operational success of Estonian companies (liquidity, productivity, profitability) was investigated. See the project report here.
  • In a study from 2019-2020 was examined the impact of enterprise support on companies’ export capacity, survival, innovative performance, productivity, and average wages.
  • In the project “Effect of the minimum wage on the socio-economic development of Estonia” (2020-2021), the impact of the minimum wage on employment, wages and the gender wage gap, and the operational success of companies (productivity, exports) was investigated.

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Jaan Masso

Jaan Masso

Associate Professor

jaan.masso@ut.ee

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Infotechnological Mobility Observatory

The research was conducted using the research infrastructure “Infotechnological Mobility Observatory” funded by the Estonian Research Council (TARISTU24-TK18)

Beneficiary: University of Tartu

Partners: Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn University, Statistics Estonia

Period: 2014 - 2029

Brief description: Growing spatial mobility is one of the important changes in modern society, which is related to the topics of external and internal migration, urbanization, entrepreneurship, inequality and regional development. Up-to-date and high-quality data are needed to study spatial mobility. The goal of IMO is to develop an innovative data infrastructure supporting mobility research, integrating geographically and longitudinally diverse national statistics and innovative IT data sources.