We construct an index for measuring negative economic sentiment in Finland by using news titles collected from the Finnish broadcasting company Yle's archive. Our approach uses supervised machine learning text classification for detecting news titles featuring negative economic sentiment, and...

Labour income taxes have decreased considerably in Finland in the period 1996-2008. At the same time the Finnish economy has grown rapidly. Nevertheless, there has been another coincident trend in this period: A rapid rise in inequality. This study aims to answer to what extent labour income tax...