We analyze self-selection and sorting of emigrants from Finland, using full-population administrative data from Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education, occupation, and unobserved abilities. Our analysis...

This paper develops and tests a new model of asymmetric information in the labour market involving employer learning. In the model, I provide theoretical conditions for the identification - based on the experience and tenure profiles of estimated returns to ability and education - of employer...

In post-socialist countries, over qualification is a current and relevant issue, but despite its importance, this topic is not sufficiently addressed in the literature, especially in the post-communist region. Starting from the theory of professional reorientation strategies, one can assume that...