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Slipping through the Cracks of a Welfare State: Children of Immigrants in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-03-22)
We document large differences in educational attainment, criminal sentences and use of psychotropic medication between the children of immigrants and natives living in Finland. Among the offspring of immigrants from the ...
Worker-level consequences of import shocks
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-05-16)
We analyse the effects of imports on employment and earnings by distinguishing between import competition in final products and firms' use of imports in production (offshoring). We use Finnish worker-firm data merged with ...
Self-Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-04-19)
We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realized. The same conditions that have been shown to result in positive or negative selection in terms of expected ...
The (Displacement) Effects of Spatially Targeted Enterprise Initiatives: Evidence from UK LEGI
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-03-07)
We investigate the impacts of a significant area-based intervention (LEGI) that aimed to increase employment and entrepreneurial activity in 30 disadvantaged areas across England. We examine the spatial pattern of effects ...
The evolution of social mobility: Norway over the 20th century
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-06-17)
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, ...