Details about Hannu Karhunen

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Short-id: pka1602

Working Papers

2026

1. Does Information Sharing Encourage Participation in Education? Final Report on the Letter Mail Experiment and the Outreach Pilot
   ETLA Reports, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
2. Graded for Life? Long-Run Impacts of High-Stakes Exam Thresholds
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo
3. Miten saada osaavia maahanmuuttajia Suomeen?
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science

2025

4. Regulating Labor Immigration: The Effects of Lifting Labor Market Testing
   Working Papers, Työn ja talouden tutkimus LABORE, The Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE
   Also in Working Papers, Työn ja talouden tutkimus LABORE, The Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE (2024)
5. The Debt Burden of Job Loss in a Nordic Welfare State
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER
   Also in ETLA Working Papers, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (2024)
   Working Papers, Työn ja talouden tutkimus LABORE, The Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE (2024) View citations (1)

2021

6. Behavior and Effectiveness of Decentralized Employment Offices
   Working Papers, Työn ja talouden tutkimus LABORE, The Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE

2019

7. The long shadow of high stakes exams: Evidence from discontinuities
   Working Papers, Työn ja talouden tutkimus LABORE, The Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE

2017

8. The intergenerational effects of parental higher education: Evidence from changes in university accessibility
   Working Papers, VATT Institute for Economic Research
   See also Journal Article The intergenerational effects of parental higher education: Evidence from changes in university accessibility, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2019) View citations (30) (2019)

2016

9. Reforming Student Financial Aid – Estimates from a Structural Model
   ETLA Reports, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy

Journal Articles

2026

1. Labor Policies and Immigrant Employment
   Journal of Economic Surveys, 2026, 40, (1), 321-339

2025

2. If You Charge Them, Will They Come? The Effect of Levying Tuition Fees on International Students
   Research in Higher Education, 2025, 66, (6), 1-38

2023

3. The decentralization of public employment services and local governments’ responses to incentives
   Journal of Economic Geography, 2023, 23, (6), 1371-1395

2021

4. A tale of two trade-offs: Effects of opening pathways from vocational to higher education
   Economics Letters, 2021, 205, (C) View citations (2)

2019

5. The intergenerational effects of parental higher education: Evidence from changes in university accessibility
   Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 176, (C), 195-217 View citations (30)
   See also Working Paper The intergenerational effects of parental higher education: Evidence from changes in university accessibility, Working Papers (2017) (2017)

Chapters

2017

1. Working while studying: does it lead to greater attachment to the regional labour market?
   Chapter 6 in Graduate Migration and Regional Development, 2017, pp 114-138 View citations (1)