Professor
PhD, Cornell University, 1992
Research Interests
- Labour Economics - wages, occupational choice, discrimination, child care, career mobility, time-use, education, personnel and behavioural aspects
- Health Economics - health measurement, health determinants, health and labour outcomes
- Economics of Ageing - retirement, pension systems
- Development Economics - microanalyses, poverty, education
Selected Publications
- Probabilities of Job Choice and Employer Selection and Male-Female Occupational Differences (1993). American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 57-61.
- Children and Career Interruptions: The Family Gap in Denmark (2002) (with N. Smith). Economica, Vol. 69. No. 276, pp. 609-629.
- Multivariate Mixed Proportional Hazard Modelling of the Joint Retirement of Married Couples (2004) (M.Y. An and B.J. Christensen). Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 19, No. 6, pp. 687-704.
- Swimming Upstream, Floating Downstream: Comparing Women's Wage Progress in the U.S. and Denmark (2006) (R.L. Oaxaca and N. Smith). Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 243-266.
- Is Marriage Poisenous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark (2007) (with L. Stratton and N. Smith). Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 412-433.
- The Impact of Nordic Countries' Family-Friendly Policies on Wages, Employment and Children (2008) (with N. Smith and M. Verner). Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 65-89.
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