Our doctoral researcher Waseem Haider defended his doctoral dissertation today, examining how illness affects migrants’ employment and earnings in Finland. His research shows that serious illness leads to larger and more persistent earnings losses among migrants than among the native population.

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Turns out "a simple four-variable linear regression" is not such a bad prediction strategy after all. (How many times do we need to learn this?)

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Unohtiko lehdistö tutkijat, kysyy sosiologian prof. @janierola.net Pisa-blogissaan ja vastaa: Pikemminkin syynä taitaa olla se, että tutkijat eivät yksinkertaisesti tiedä, mikä ilmiötä selittää.– – – Osaamistulosten laskua tutkii tuhannet tutkijat ympäri maailmaa, eikä konsensusta sen syistä ole.

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Seriously, this might be great opportunity for a RD paper about political influence in social media. Did the bot accounts stop to flood the zone everywhere?

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Hi, it's been a while 👋 Since getting back from summer break, we have been extremely busy here at Acta HQ preparing a new special issue and editing many great new contributions (among other things). So in the coming weeks we'll share some of the great stuff we've published since the summer!

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