Publications

In peer-reviewed journals:

"Wealth, Portfolios, and Non-Employment Duration" with Francois Fontaine and Janne Jensen. Accepted by the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking

"Sufficient Statistics for Frictional Wage Dispersion and Growth" with Greg Veramendi. Quantitative Economics, 2023, Vol. 14, issue 3, p. 935-979

"Employer-to-Employer Transitions and Time Aggregation Bias" with Antoine Bertheau. Labour Economics, 2022, Vol. 75

"Learning Through Coworker Referrals" with Albrecht Glitz. Review of Economic Dynamics, 2021, Vol. 46, p. 37-71.

"Estimation of a Roy/Search/Compensating Differentials Model of the Labor Market" with Chris Taber. Econometrica, 2020, Vol. 88, Issue 3, p. 1031-1069. Online Appendix D-E

"The Labor Market Gender Gap in Denmark: Sorting Out the Past 30 Years" with Yana Gallen and Rune Lesner. Labour Economics, 2019, 56, p. 58–67

"Optimal Unemployment Insurance: How Important is the Demand Side?" Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2017, 21(8), p. 2070-2095

"College Admissions Decisions, Educational Outcomes,and Family Formation" with Maria Humlum and Jannie Kristoffersen, Labour Economics, 2017, 48, p. 215-230.. Earlier working paper version entitled "Timing of College Enrollment and Family Formation Decisions".

"Documenting and Improving the Hourly Wage Measure in the Danish IDA Database" with Christian Lund, The Danish Journal of Economics, 2016, vol. 1, p. 1-35. Download longer (150 p.) working paper version here.

"The Length of Maternity Leave and Family Health" with Louise Beuchert and Maria Humlum, Labour Economics (Special Issue on Health and the Labor Market), 2016, vol. 43, p. 55-71

"Determinants of Generic vs. Brand Drug Choice: Evidence from Population-wide Danish Data" with Niels Skipper. Social Science and Medicine, 2015, vol. 130, C, p. 204-215. 

"Return to Experience and Initial Wage Level: Do Low Wage Workers Catch Up?" with Kenneth Sørensen. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, vol. 29, p. 984-1006.. Online Appendix

"The Importance of Worker, Firm and Match Effects in the Formation of Wages" with Torben Sørensen Empirical Economics, 2013, vol. 45, 1, p. 435-464. Download WP version here. 

"Residential Location, Job Location, and Wages: Theory and Empirics" LABOUR, 2013, 27, 2, p. 115-139.

"The Responses of Youth to a Cash Transfer Conditional on Schooling: A Quasi-Experimental Study" with Maria Humlum. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28, p. 628-649. Download WP version here (note different title).

"Wage Sorting Trends" with Jesper Bagger and Kenneth Sørensen Economics Letters, 2013, 118, 1, p. 63–67. Download WP version here.

"Worker and Firm Heterogeneity in Wage Growth: An AKM approach" with Kenneth Sørensen. LABOUR, 2011, 25, 4, p. 485-507.

"Reducing Income Transfers to Refugee Immigrants: Does Starthelp Help You Start?" with Michael Rosholm. Labour Economics, 2010, 17, 1, p.258-275. Download WP version here.




Policy work:

"Gennemførelse af en erhvervsuddannelse - to effektmålinger" with Bingley, P., Humlum, M. K., and N. Kristensen. VIVE. Report prepared for the Danish Ministry of Children and Education 

"Potentielle beskæftigelses- og løneffekter ved at løfte ufaglærte til faglært niveau - empirisk viden og mulighederne for metodisk udvikling" with Torben M. Andersen and Michael Svarer, report to the Ministry of Children and Education.

"Litteratursurvey af effekter af kontanthjælpslignende ydelser" with Torben. M. Andersen, Marianne Simonsen, Lars Skipper og Michael Svarer, report to Ydelseskommissionen

"Studiestøtte, studiearbejde og uddannelsesforløb på de gymnasiale uddannelser: En analyse af to reformer af SU-systemet" with Maria Humlum, report prepared for the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science

"Litteraturreview af effekter af ydelsessystemer" with Torben M. Andersen and Michael Svarer, report to the Commission on UI Benefits