Ph.D. in Economics, University of Oslo
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
> 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
> 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
> 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)
> 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