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Twitter and Crime: The Effect of Social Movements on GenderBased Violence
(ifo Institute, 2022-10-31)
This paper asks whether social movements taking place on Twitter affect genderbased violence (GBV). Using Twitter data and machine learning methods, we construct a novel data set on the prevalence of Twitter conversations ...
Do Second Chances Pay Off? Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Low-Achieving Students
(IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 2022-03)
In several countries, students who fail end-of-high-school high-stakes exams are faced with the choice of retaking them or forgoing postsecondary education. We explore exogenous variation generated by a 2006 policy that ...
Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
(IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 2022-05)
We exploit admission cutoffs to secondary schools to study the effects of general academically oriented, versus vocational secondary schooling on cognitive and non-cognitive skills using a regression discontinuity design. ...
Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies: Evidence from Finland's Integration Plans
(IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 2022)
This paper shows that an integration policy aimed at unemployed adult immigrants generated positive spillovers for their children. Our research design builds on a discontinuity in the phase-in-rule of Finland’s 1999 reform ...
Migration and tax policy: Evidence from Finnish full population data
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2022-10-27)
While evidence on the impact of taxation on the international migration of certain special groups of workers has expanded, evidence on the links between taxes and migration of the general population is extremely limited. ...
The Effects of Unemployment Assistance on Unemployment Exits
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-03-19)
Many countries have a two-tiered unemployment compensation system which provides earnings-related unemployment insurance for a limited period of time and less generous unemployment assistance thereafter. This study evaluates ...
Wage and Employment Discrimination by Gender in Labor Market Equilibrium
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-05-28)
This paper develops an equilibrium search model to study the mechanisms underlying the lifecycle gender wage gap: human capital accumulation, preference for job amenities, and employers’ statistical discrimination in wage ...
The Corona Crisis and Household Income: The Case of a Generous Welfare State
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-02-04)
Using a microsimulation approach, this paper evaluates the distributional consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in Finland. We use up-to-date administrative data on incomes and employment developments in 2020 at the entire ...
Removing Welfare Traps: Employment Responses in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2021-03-17)
This paper provides evidence that replacing minimum unemployment benefits with a basic income of equal size has minor employment effects at best. We examine an experiment in Finland in which 2,000 benefit recipients were ...
Discrete Labor Supply: Empirical Evidence and Implications
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-05-25)
We provide novel evidence of discrete labor supply responses to tax incentives and study the broader implications of discrete rather than continuous labor supply. We utilize an income notch and a reform that shifted the ...