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Immigration and School Choices in the Midst of the Great Recession

Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc; Tanaka, Ryuichi - 2015

This paper empirically analyzes the effects of immigration on the schooling decisions of natives. We employ household-level data for Spain for years 2000-2012, a period characterized by a large immigration wave and a severe recession. Our estimates reveal that Spanish households responded to...

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Immigration, Naturalization, and the Future of Public Education

Tanaka, Ryuichi; Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc - 2014

This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political economy perspective. Specifically, we extend the school-choice model by Epple and Romano (1996b) and Coen-Pirani (2011) by incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing...

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Immigration and the Political Economy of Public Education: Recent Perspectives

Ortega, Francesc; Tanaka, Ryuichi - 2015

This paper reviews the recent literature on the effects of immigration on the public education of the host country, emphasizing the political economy implications. In particular, we are interested on what happens to enrollment in public schools and the quality of education in these schools. Our...

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Within and Between Firm Trends in Job Polarization: Role of Globalization and Technology

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Maczulskij, Terhi; Maliranta, Mika - 2016

This paper analyzes occupational polarization within and across firms using comprehensive matched employer-employee panel data from Finland. The occupational distribution in Finland has been polarizing over the last few decades, with mid-level production and clerical jobs eroding while low-skill...

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Business Owners, Employees and Firm Performance

Maliranta, Mika; Nurmi, Satu - 2016

firm. This can be interpreted as evidence of knowledge spillover through labor mobility. Strikingly, firms established in …

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...

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Determinants of Teacher Value-Added in Public Primary Schools: Evidence from Administrative Panel Data

Tanaka, Ryuichi; Bessho, Shun-ichiro; Kawamura, Akira; … - 2020

This study estimates teacher value-added (TVA) for language arts and mathematics test scores of students in public primary schools to investigate the empirical relationship between testscore TVA and observable traits and promotions of teachers. Our empirical strategy employs Chetty, Friedman,...

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Do Teachers' College Majors Affect Students' Academic Achievement in the Sciences? A Cross-Subfields Analysis with Student-Teacher Fixed Effects

Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryuichi - 2022

We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics...

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

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Innovation, Firm Risk and Industry Productivity

Maliranta, Mika; Määttänen, Niku - 2014

Radical innovations require risk-taking. However, it is hard to find an objective measure for innovation investments … that would take riskiness into account. In this paper, we investigate how a simple measure of firms’ innovation investments …. We then build a simple model where firms’ innovation activities and firm risk are interrelated. We use the model to …

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