Ola Lotherington Vestad
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
Published work:
> 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
> Do Employees Benefit from Worker Representation on Corporate Boards?,
joint with Christine Blandhol, Magne Mogstad, and Peter Nilsson ,
revision requested by the Economic Journal
First version: November 2020. This version: August 2022.
> Broadband Internet and the Stock Market Investments of Individual Investors,
joint with Hans Hvide, Tom Meling, and Magne Mogstad,
forthcoming in the Journal of Finance
> Excess Early Retirement? Evidence from the Norwegian 2011 Pension Reform,
joint with Christian Brinch and Josef Zweimüller
First version: September 2016. This version: March 2021
> Income, Consumption, and Savings around Retirement,
joint with Mirjam Wentzel
First version: December 2021. This version: July 2022.
Older working papers:
> 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:
> The evolution of Norwegian farmers' income, 2004-2018, Reports 2022/39, Statistics Norway (written in Norwegian)
> Economic inequality in Norway in the twenty-first century, Reports 2021/33, Statistics Norway (written in Norwegian)
> Business income and income inequality in Norway, SSB Analyse 2020/13, Statistics Norway (written in Norwegian)
> Separating causation from correlation, Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning 03/2019 (written in Norwegian)
> Effects of in-work tax credits on labour supply among immigrants, Reports 2016/38, Statistics Norway (written in Norwegian)
> Income growth over the life cycle, Reports 2014/3, Statistics Norway (written in Norwegian)
> Effekter av AFP på sysselsetting blant eldre arbeidstakere, Økonomiske analyser, 4/2013 (written in Norwegian)
> 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 (written in Norwegian)
