Ola Lotherington Vestad

Research interests: Applied labor economics; wage formation; pensions and retirement behavior

Employer: Research Department, Statistics Norway

E-mail: olv {at} ssb.no

Phone: +47 99 27 35 99

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Published work:        

> Broadband Internet and the Stock Market Investments of Individual Investors, 

joint with Hans Hvide, Tom Meling, and Magne Mogstad, Journal of Finance 79(3), 2024

> Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining,

joint with Manudeep Bhuller, Kalle Moene, and Magne Mogstad, Journal of Economic Perspectives 36(4), 2022

> What can we learn about household consumption expenditure from data on income and assets?, 

joint with Lasse Eika and Magne Mogstad, Journal of Public Economics 189, 2020

> Life Expectancy and Claiming Behavior in a Flexible Pension System, 

joint with Christian Brinch and Dennis Fredriksen, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 120(4), 979-1010, 2018

SJE Price for best paper of 2018

> Labour Supply Effects of Early Retirement Provision, 

Labour Economics 25, 98-109, 2013

  > Does Retirement Age Impact Mortality?, 

joint with Erik Hernæs, Simen Markussen, and John Piggott, Journal of Health Economics 32(3), 586-598, 2013

Working papers: 

> How Business Income Measures Affect Income Inequality and the Tax Burden, 

joint with Rolf Aaberge, Marco Francesconi, and Jørgen Modalsli

First version: November 2023. This version: July 2025.

> Who Benefits from Worker Representation on Corporate Boards?, 

joint with Christine Blandhol, Lancelot Henry de Frahan, Magne Mogstad, and Peter Nilsson,

revision requested by the Economic Journal 

First version: November 2020. This version: June 2025.

Previous title: "Do Employees Benefit from Worker Representation on Corporate Boards? "

> Income, Consumption, and Savings around Retirement, 

joint with Mirjam Wentzel,

revision requested by the Scandinavian Journal of Economics 

First version: December 2021. This version: July 2022.

> Occupational Licnsing, Earnings Premiums, and Labor Market Mobility, 

joint with Katarzyna Segiet,

revision requested by the ILR Review

Older working papers: 

> Excess Early Retirement? Evidence from the Norwegian 2011 Pension Reform, 

joint with Christian Brinch and Josef Zweimüller (March 2021)

> Early Retirement and Youth Employment in Norway (April 2013) 

> Who Pays for Occupational Pensions? (August 2012)

(earlier version printed as Memorandum, University of Oslo)  

> Labour mobility, pension portability and the lack of lock-in effects, 

joint with Erik Hernæs, John Piggott and Tao Zhang (March 2011)

Policy reports and articles in Norwegian:

> Private business wealth and latent tax liabilities in Norway, 2011-2022, Reports 2025/21, Statistics Norway (joint with Morten Grindaker)

> Income inequality in Norway, 2016-2022, Reports 2024/32, Statistics Norway

> The evolution of Norwegian farmers' income, 2004-2018, Reports 2022/39, Statistics Norway (joint with Lasse Eika)

> Economic inequality in Norway in the twenty-first century, Reports 2021/33, Statistics Norway (joint with Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad, and Arnstein Vestre)

> Business income and income inequality in Norway, SSB Analyse 2020/13, Statistics Norway (joint with Rolf Aaberge and Jørgen Modalsli) 

> Separating causation from correlation, Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning 03/2019 

> Effects of in-work tax credits on labour supply among immigrants, Reports 2016/38, Statistics Norway (joint with Rolf Aaberge and Manudeep Bhuller)

 > Income growth over the life cycle, Reports 2014/3, Statistics Norway

 > Effekter av AFP på sysselsetting blant eldre arbeidstakere, Økonomiske analyser, 4/2013

 > Firm entry and post-entry performance in selected Norwegian industries, Report 2/2007, Frisch Centre

 > Inntektsfordeling og inntektsmobilitet – pensjonsgivende inntekt i Norge 1971-2003, Report 7/2006, Frisch Centre