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Post-secondary education and information on labor market prospects : a randomized field experiment

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Sarvimäki, Matti; … - 2015

We examine the impact of an information intervention offered to 97 randomly chosen high schools in Finland. Graduating students in treatment schools were surveyed and given information on the labor market prospects associated with detailed post-secondary programs. A third of the students report...

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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...

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Is child like parent? : educational attainment and ethnic origin

Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

difference in favor of father's education over mother's education. …

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Migration, education and the gender gap in labour force participation

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2014

gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors - international migration and education - on the … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan … participation by men domestically; increased female education, especially at the university and vocational level, increases female …

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The evolution of social mobility : Norway over the 20th century

Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sarvimäki, Matti - 2016

This paper documents trends in social mobility in Norway starting from fathers born at the turn of the 20th century and ending with sons born in the 1970s. We measure social mobility with intergenerational income elasticities, associations between fathers' and sons' income percentiles, and...

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The making of social democracy: the economic and electoral consequences of Norway’s 1936 folk school reform

Acemoglu, Daron; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; … - 2021

by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …. These results are not driven by the direct impact of education and are not explained by higher turnout, or greater attention …

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Migration and university education : an empirical (macro) link

Akkoyunlu, Şule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022

Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-linear long-run and short-run relationship between home country university education and Turkish migration to Germany over 1970 …

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The timing of puberty and gender differences in educational achievement

Koerselman, Kristian; Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2017

In this paper, we study the effect of the timing of puberty on educational achievement and examine to what extent the gender differences in the timing of puberty can explain gender differences in achievement. We use British cohort data that combine information on pubertal development with test...

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Lost boys : access to secondary education and crime

Huttunen, Kristiina; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; … - 2019

We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by …

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Schooling forsaken : education and migration

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2019

We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled migration is worrisome, many...

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