Tor Viking Eriksson

Research Interests

• Labour Economics, in particular Personnel Economics
• Intergenerational Mobility
• Health Economics

Teaching

• Microeconomics

• Economics of Human Resources, Personnel Economics 

Some Recent Publications

• Working in the Boundary between Market and Flexicurity: Housekeeping in Danish Hotels, forthcoming in International Labour Review, 2009 (with J. Li).
• Unemployment and Mental Disorders – Evidence from Danish Panel Data, forthcoming in International Journal of Mental Health (with E. Agerbo, P. B. Mortensen and N. Westergaard-Nielsen)
• Labour Market Outcomes of Internationalization – What Have We Learnt from Analyses of Microdata on Firms and Their Employees?”, forthcoming in: D. Marsden and F. Rycx (eds.), Wage Structures, Employment Adjustments and Globalization: Evidence from Linked and Firm-level Panel Data Sets. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
• Small Open Economy Firms in International Trade: Evidence from Danish Transactions-Level Data, Danish Economic Journal (Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift), 2009 (147), 175-194 (with V. Smeets and F. Warzynski)
• Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence, Labour Economics, 2009 (16), 679-688 (with A. Poulsen and M. C. Villeval).
• Productivity Differences in an International Pharmaceutical Firm”, chapter in: R. Freeman and K. Shaw (eds.), International Differences in the Business Practices and Productivity of Firms. University of Chicago Press and National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009, 173-192 (with N. Westergård-Nielsen).
• Tournaments, in: S. Durlauf and L. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd (online) edition (www.dictionaryofeconomics.com). Palgrave Macmillan,2009, doi:10.1057/9780230226203.1898.
• Does Self-Selection Improve the Efficiency of Tournaments?, Economic Inquiry, 2009 (47), 530-48 (with S. Teyssier and M. C. Villeval).
• Wage and Labor Mobility in Denmark, 1980-2000, in: E. Lazear and K. Shaw (eds.), The Structure of Wages: An International Comparison. University of Chicago Press and National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009, 101 - 123 (with N. Westergård-Nielsen).
• Performance-Pay, Sorting and Social Motivation, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008 (68), 412-421 (with M. C. Villeval).
• Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries (with O. Raaum, B. Bratsberg, K. Røed, E. Österbacka, M. Jäntti and R. Naylor), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 7: Iss. 2(Advances), Article 7. Available at: http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/vol7/iss2/art7.
• Restructuring Meets Flexicurity: Housekeeping Work in Danish Hotels (with J. Li), chapter in : N. Westergaaard-Nielsen (ed.), Low-Wage Work in Denmark. The Russell Sage Foundation Case Studies of Job Quality in Advanced Economies. Russell Sage Foundation; New York, 2008, 186-217.
• Nonlinearity in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Consequences for Cross-Country Comparisons (with B Bratsberg, K Røed, O Raaum, M Jäntti, R Naylor and E Österbacka), Economic Journal, 2007 (117), C72-C92.
• An Analysis of the Determinants of Job Satisfaction when Individuals’ Baseline Satisfaction Levels May Differ (with A C D’Addio and P Frijters), Applied Economics, 2007 (39), 2413-2423.
• Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and Unobserved Ability: Siblings Evidence from Five Countries (with A Björklund, B Bratsberg, M Jäntti and O Raaum), Industrial Relations, 2007 (46), 171-202.
• Firm Spin-offs in Denmark, 1981-2000: Patterns of Entry and Exit (with J M Kuhn), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2006 (24), 1021-1040. 
• The Adoption of Job Rotation Practices: Testing the Theories (with J Ortega), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006 (59), 653- 666.
• Managerial Pay and Executive Turnover in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Economics of Transition, 2005 (13), 659-677.

Recent working papers

CV and publication list 1997 - present