Nina Smith

MSc (Econ), University of Aarhus, 1981

Research Interests

• Family-friendly policies and women's careers
• Intergenerational mobility and educational attainment
• Evaluation of school systems 
• Integration of immigrants into the labour market

Selected Publications since 2000

• N. Smith et aL. (2000), Unemployment Shocks and Income Distribution: How did the Nordic Countries Fare During their Crises? Scandinavian Journal of Economics 102 (1): 77-99, 2000.
• Pedersen P.J. and N. Smith (2000), Trends in the Danish Income Distribution, 1976-90, CLS Working Paper 97-11, Center for Labour Market and Social Research, The University of Aarhus and The Aarhus School of Business. Labour 14(3), 523-546 .
• Barmby T. and N. Smith (2000), Household labour supply in Britain and Denmark, Applied Economics 33(9), 1109-1116.
• Husted, L., H. S. Nielsen, M. Rosholm and N. Smith (2001), Employment and Wage Assimilation of Male First Generation Immigrants in Denmark. The earnings of first generation immigrants in Denmark. International Journal of Manpower vol 22, no 1-2, 39-68. 
• Datta Gupta, N. and N. Smith (2002), Children and Career Interruptions: The Family Gap in Denmark. IZA discussion paper #263. Economica 69 (276), 609-629.                          
• Pedersen, P. J. and N. Smith (2002), Unemployment traps and financial disincentives to work, European Sociological Review vol 18, no. 3. pp. 271-288.
• Aaberge, R., A. Björklund, M. Jäntti, M. Palme, P. J. Pedersen, N. Smith, and T. Wennemo (2002), Income Inequality and Income Mobility in the Scandinavian Countries compared to the US, Statistics Norway, Review of Income and Wealth vol 48 (4), 443-469.
• Smith; N., S. Dex, T. Callan  and J. D. Vlasblom (2003), Taxation of Spouses: A Cross Country Study of the Effects on Married Women’s Labour Supply. Oxford Economic papers 55(3), 417-439. 
• Nielsen, H. S,  M. Rosholm, N. Smith and L. Husted (2003), Qualifications, Discrimination, or Assimilation? An Extended Framework for Analysing Immigrant Wage Gaps. Empirical Economics 29(4), 855-883.
• Nielsen, H. S., M. Rosholm, N. Smith and L. Husted (2003), Intergenerational transmissions and the school-to-work transition of 2nd generation immigrants. Journal of Population Economics 16(4), 755-786.
• Frederiksen, A., Graversen E.K. and N. Smith (2004), Tax Evasion and Work in the Regular and Underground Sector. Labour Economics 12(5), 613-628.
• Datta Gupta, N., R. Oaxaca and N. Smith (2006), Swimming Upstream, Floating Downstream: Comparing Women's Relative Wage Progress in the United States and Denmark. Industrial and Labor Relations 59(2), 243-266.
• Datta Gupta, N., R. Oaxaca and N. Smith (2006), Analyzing Trends in the U.S. and Danish Gender Wage Gaps in the 1980s and 1990s. Applied Economics Letters.
• Jakobsen, V. and N. Smith, The educational attainment of the children of Danish 'guest worker' immigrants. Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift 144.
• Smith, N., V. Smith and M. Verner (2006), Do Women in Top Management Affect Firm Performance? A Panel Study of 2500 Danish Firms. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management.
• Datta Gupta, N., L. Stratton and N. Smith (2007), Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark. Forthcoming in Southern Economic Journal.
• Datta Gupta, N., N. Smith and M. Verner (forthcoming), An overview of the impact of family-frindly policies in Nordic countries. Forthcoming in Review of Economics of the Household.

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