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The Effects of Relative School Starting Age on Educational Outcomes in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-04-21)
In Finland, children start school during the calendar year they turn seven years old. This creates a discontinuous jump in school starting age. I utilize a regression discontinuity design and rich register data to study ...
Economic crises and unemployment persistence: Analysis of job losses during the Finnish 1990s recession
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-11-20)
This study estimates the effect of job loss for Finnish workers displaced during a severe recession in the early 1990s. The setting provides a sample of workers of which over 90% experienced unemployment after losing a job ...
The local economic impacts of regeneration projects: Evidence from UK’s Single Regeneration Budget
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-08-15)
We study the local economic impacts of a major regeneration programme aimed at enhancing the quality of life of local people in deprived neighbourhoods in the UK. The analysis is based on a panel of firm and area level ...
Targeted Funding, Immigrant Background, and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Helsinki's “Positive Discrimination” Policy
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-08-18)
I estimate the impact of a targeted funding policy that provides disadvantaged schools in Helsinki with extra resources for hiring additional staff. Using a differences-in-differences strategy, I identify significant ...
Long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits for older workers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-05-31)
This paper examines the long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits that older unemployed can collect until retirement in Finland. We consider a reform that increased the age threshold of this scheme from 55 to 57 ...
The spike at benefit exhaustion in the Finnish labor market
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-05-31)
Many studies have found that the exit rate from unemployment increases in the vicinity of the exhaustion day of unemployment insurance benefits. The extent to which this spike is driven by job search behavior is important ...
The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Graduating During a Recession: Evidence from Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-10-05)
This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data on university graduates who obtained a Master’s degree in 1988–2004 to study how facing adverse economic conditions upon graduation affects short- and long-term labor ...
The intergenerational effects of parental higher education: Evidence from changes in university accessibility
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-12-08)
We examine the causal effect of parental higher education on their offspring’s education, using quasi-experimental variation from the significant regional convergence in parents’ access to university occurring in Finland ...
The timing of puberty and gender differences in educational achievement
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-10-11)
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 ...
The effects of UI benefits on unemployment and subsequent outcomes: Evidence from a kinked benefit rule
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2016-12-12)
This paper analyzes the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on unemployment exits and subsequent labor market outcomes. We exploit a piecewise linear relationship between the previous wage and UI benefits in ...