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Immigrant Narratives
Gehring, Kai; Harm Adema, Joop Age; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022
Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via the media, are crucial in shaping how immigrants’ role in society is perceived. We propose a new method combining advanced natural language processing tools with dictionaries...
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Federation's alternative tax constitutions and risky education
Poutvaara, Panu - 1999
We analyze a two-period modell where risk-averse students divide their time between risky education, leisure, and work. The educated can migrate. Wagetax financed transfer to students acts as an insurance, and increases both investment in education and demand for leisure. We drive sufficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443239
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Federation's alternative tax constitutions and risky education
Poutvaara, Panu - 1999
We analyze a two-period modell where risk-averse students divide their time between risky education, leisure, and work. The educated can migrate. Wagetax financed transfer to students acts as an insurance, and increases both investment in education and demand for leisure. We drive sufficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428263
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Self-selection of emigrants : theory and evidence on stochastic dominance in observable and unobservable characteristics
Borjas, George J.; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
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Self-selection of emigrants : theory and evidence on stochastic dominance in observable and unobservable characteristics
Borjas, George J.; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realized … imply a stochastic dominance relationship between the earnings distributions of migrants and nonmigrants. We use the Danish … emigrants in terms of preemigration earnings: the income distribution for the migrants almost stochastically dominates the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350731
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Self‐selection of emigrants : theory and evidence on stochastic dominance in observable and unobservable characteristics
Borjas, George J.; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self‐selection of migrants than previously realized … imply a stochastic dominance relationship between the earnings distributions of migrants and non-migrants. We use the Danish … emigrants in terms of pre-emigration earnings: the income distribution for the migrants almost stochastically dominates the …
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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe : who migrates where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …
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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe: who migrates where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee … large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees … and female irregular migrants are positively self-selected with respect to human capital, while male irregular migrants …
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Bitterness in life and attitudes towards immigration
Poutvaara, Panu; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - In: European journal of political economy 55 (2018), pp. 471-490
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Integrating refugees into the labor market : a comparison of Europe and the United States
Poutvaara, Panu; Wech, Daniela - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 14 (2016) 4, pp. 32-43
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