Peter Jensen

Research Area

• Empirical Labour Economics
• Micro econometrics
• Econometric Duration Models
• Unemployment

Other Professional Activities

• Director of the Graduate School for "Integration, Production and Welfare"
• Research Fellow at IZA, Bonn
• Member of the Advisory Committee of the IZA Summer School in Labor Economics (ESPE representative).
• Member of the Management Committee of COST action A-23 (EU).
• Member of the Coordinating Committee for Register-based Research, Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.
• Member of Nordic Campbell Center's Methods Network Group.

Selected Publications

• A search model applied to the transition from education to work (with Niels We­stergård-Nielsen). Review of Economic Studies 44, 461-472, 1987.
• Temporary layoffs (with Niels Westergård-Nielsen). In: J.Hartog, G.Ridder and J.Theeuwes (eds.) Panel Data and Labour Market Studies, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1989.
• Unemployment and marital dissolution (with Nina Smith). Journal of Po­pu­la­tion Economics 3, 215-229, 1990.
• Heterogeneous duration dependence: Econometric methods and empirical evidence. In: H. Bunzel, P. Jensen and N. Westergård-Nielsen (eds.) Panel Data and Labour Market Dynamics, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1993.
• Unemployment in Denmark. In: E. Wadensjö (ed.) The Nordic labour markets in the 1990's, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1996.
• Child labour or school attendance ? - evidence from Zambia (with Helena S.  Nielsen). Journal of Population Economics 10, 407-424, 1997.
• Panel Data and Structural Labour Market Models (editor) (with H. Bunzel, B.J. Christensen, N.M. Kiefer and D. Mortensen), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2000.
• Specification and estimation of equilibrium search models (with H. Bunzel, B.J. Christensen, N.M. Kiefer, L. Korsholm, L. Muus, G.R. Neumann and M. Rosholm). Review of Economic Dynamics 4, 90-126, 2001.
• Short- and long-term unemployment: How do temporary layoffs affect this di­stinc­tion? (with Michael Svarer). Empirical Economics 28, 23-44, 2003.
• The response of youth unemployment to benefits, incentives, and sanctions (with Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer). European Journal of Political Economy 19, 301-316, 2003.