Professor
MSc (Econ), University of Aarhus, 1975
PhD (lic.polit), University of Copenhagen, 1982
Research Interests
- Wage formation at individual and firm level, unemployment and employment
- Matched worker and firm data
- Personnel Economics
- Health Economics
Teaching Area
- Bachelor level: Descriptive Economics
- Master level: Economics of Human Resources.
Selected Publications
- The Danish Economy. An International Perspective (with T.M. Andersen, B. Dalum, H. Linderoth and V. Smith). DJØF Publishing Copenhagen, 2001, 269 p.
- Temporary Layoffs (with P.Jensen), in Hartog, J, G.Ridder and J.Theeuwes, Panel data and labour market studies, North-Holland, 1990.
- Unemployment: A Review of the Evidence From Panel Data (with Peder J.Pedersen), OECD Economic Studies, no 20, 1993.
- A Search Model Applied to the Transition from Education to Work (with P. Jensen), Review of Economic Studies, p. 461-471, 1987.
- Wage differentials due to gender (with N. Smith), Journal of Population Economics, Heidelberg, Vol. 1. p.115-130, 1988.
- Wage Differentials Between the Public and the Private Sectors (with P.J.Pedersen, J. Beyer Schmidt-Sørensen and N. Smith) Journal of Public Economics, pp 125-45, 1990.
- Long-run international trends in aggregate unionization (with G. Neumann and P.J.Pedersen), European Journal of Political Econonomy 7, pp 249-274, 1991.
- The Impact of Subsidies on the Number of New Apprentices (with A.R. Rasmussen), Research in Labour Economics, Vol. 18, 1999, pp. 359-375.
- Psychiatric Illness and Risk Factors for Suicide in Denmark (with E. Agerbo, T. Eriksson, P.B. Mortensen and P. Quin), The Lancet, 355, no. 1, pp. 9-12, 2000.
- Personnel Policy and Profit (with P. Bingley). Journal of Business Research, 2003.
- Returns to Tenure, Firm-Specific Human Capital and Worker Heterogeneity (with P. Bingley). Forthcoming in International Journal of Manpower.
Current Research
- Career making, wage growth and job mobility (with P. Bingley)
- Job satisfaction and worker turnover (with N. Kristensen)
- Changes in the wage setting system in Denmark
- Worker turnover and HRM policies (with D. Beaulieu, Harvard Business School)
- Case studies on productivity differences between the US and Denmark
- The decline of manufacturing employment
- Wage dispersion and firm level performance (with C. Grund, Bonn University).
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