Professor
Dr.Pol.

Department of Economics and Business
Frichshuset Hermodsvej 22
8230  Åbyhøj

E-mail: tor@asb.dk

Phone: +45 894 86404
Fax: +45 894 86197

Room: FH324

Research Interests

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

Teaching

• Microeconomics

• Economics of Human Resources, Personnel Economics

Some Recent Publications

• HRM Practices and the Within-Firm Gender Wage Gap, forthcoming in British Journal of Industrial Relations (with N. Datta Gupta)
• Incentive Contracts and Time Use, forthcoming in Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research, 2011 (with J. Ortega)
• Healthy Personnel Policies, (Keynote lecture at AEA Conference on The Econometrics of Healthy Human Resource in Rome, May 2010) forthcoming in International Journal of Manpower
• Foreign Ownership and Wages in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Czech Republic, Economics of Transition 2011 (19:2), 371-395 (with M. Pytliková)
• Guest Editor of Volume 11 of Advances in Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2010
• Inequality of Opportunity and Income Inequality in Nine Chinese Provinces, China Economic Review, 2010 (21), 607-616 (with Y. Zhang)
• Unemployment and Mental Disorders - Evidence from Danish Panel Data, International Journal of Mental Health, 2010 (39:2), 56-74 (with E. Agerbo. P.B. Mortensen and N. Westergård-Nielsen)
• Labour Market Outcomes of Internationalization - What Have We Learnt from Analyses of Microdata on Firms and Their Employees?, in: D. Marsden and F. Rycx (eds.), Wage Structures, Employment Adjustments and Globalization: Evidence from Linked and Firm-level Panel Data Sets. Palgrave Mcmillan, 2010, 221-243.
• Working at the Boundary between Market and Flexicurity: Housekeeping in Danish Hotels,International Labour Review, 2009 (148:4), 357-373 (with J. Li).
• 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.

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