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Lost mind, lost job? : unequal effects of corporate downsizings on employees

Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Johansson, Edvard - 2022

workforce between two consecutive years. We estimate whether those who have been laid off have more diagnosed mental health …

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Does higher education enhance migration?

Haapanen, Mika; Böckerman, Petri - 2013

This paper examines the causal impact of education on within-country migration. A major higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics and expanded higher education to all regions. The reform created exogenous...

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How useful is the concept of skills mismatch?

McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Redmond, Paul - 2017

The term skill mismatch is very broad and can relate to many forms of labour market friction, including vertical mismatch, skill gaps, skill shortages, field of study (horizontal) mismatch and skill obsolescence. In this paper we provide a clear overview of each concept and discuss the...

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Back to school? : labor-market returns to vocational postsecondary education

Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher - 2015

Outside the U.S., little is known about the labor-market returns to vocational (or polytechnic) postsecondary education. This paper focuses on the labor-market returns to polytechnic bachelor's degrees in Finland. Using detailed administrative data, we estimate person fixed effect models to...

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Labor-market returns to higher vocational schooling

Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher - 2018

This paper examines the labor-market returns to a new form of postsecondary vocational education, vocational master's degrees. We use individual fixed effects models on the matched sample of students and non-students from Finland to capture any time-invariant differences across individuals....

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Determinants of automation risk in the EU labour market : a skills-needs approach

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2018

This paper focuses on identifying determinants of "automatability risk", namely the propensity of EU employees being in jobs with high risk of substitutability by machines, robots or other algorithmic processes, and uncovers its impact on labour market outcomes. Using relevant data on tasks and...

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A balancing act at times of austerity : matching the supply and demand for skills in the Greek labour market

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2014

This paper provides an evidence-based assessment of the current situation prevailing in the Greek market for skills and jobs. The synthesis of available skills intelligence for Greece, the country most severely affected by the global economic crisis of 2008, is crucial as it is currently faced...

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Labour market effects of the polytechnic education reform : the Finnish experience

Böckerman, Petri; Hämäläinen, Ulla; Uusitalo, Roope - 2009

This paper evaluates the labour market effects of the introduction of the polytechnic education system in Finland. The polytechnic reform gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics. Since the timing of the reform differed across schools, we can compare the performance of...

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Corporate training and skill gaps : did COVID-19 stem EU convergence in training investments?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Wruuck, Patricia - 2022

invest in their workforce, we examine transition patterns and employ dynamic panel data estimation. Finally, we analyze the … impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on firms' investment in workforce training and transitions in and out of training. We find … important element for firms and their workforce to adjust to the post-pandemic environment, asymmetries in training investment …

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