Research
Bloesch, Justin, Birthe Larsen, and Bledi Taska (2026), “Which Workers Earn More at Productive Firms? Position Specific Skills and Individual Worker Hold-up Power.” Submitted.
Bloesch, Justin, Birthe Larsen, and Anders Yding (2026), “Monopsony with Recruiting.” Working paper. Presented at the NBER Summer Institute under the title “When Do Firms Profit from Wage-Setting Power?”
Amore, Mario Daniele, Morten Bennedsen, Birthe Larsen, and Maithili Modi (2026), “Neighborhood CEOs.” Revise and resubmit. First version 2022.
Bertheau, Antoine, Birthe Larsen, and Zeyu Zhao (2026), “What Makes Hiring Difficult?,” European Economic Review.
Amore, Mario Daniele, Birthe Larsen, Morten Bennedsen, and Zeyu Zhao (2026), “The Economics of Working Environments: Evidence from Linked Survey and Register Data.” Forthcoming in Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.
Chikhale, Nisha, Natalie Duncombe, and Birthe Larsen (2026), “The Scarring Effects of Workplace Sexual Harassment.” Working paper. Submitted.
la Cour, Lisbeth, Sanne Kruse-Becker, and Birthe Larsen (2025), “Family Reunification and Mental Health,” Economics Letters, 255, Article 112479.
Bertheau, Antoine, Marianna Kudlyak, Birthe Larsen, and Morten Bennedsen (2025), “Why Firms Lay Off Workers Instead of Cutting Wages: Evidence from Matched Survey-Administrative Data.” Revise and resubmit. Updated February 2025.
la Cour, Lisbeth, Sanne Kruse-Becker, Birthe Larsen, and Martin Jepsen Mejlgaard (2025), “War at Country of Origin and Mental Health.” Working paper. Submitted.
Thide, Konrad Juel, Felix Johannes Pettersson Bøgh, and Birthe Larsen (2024), “Gender and Socioeconomic Dimensions of Relative Age Effects on ADHD Prescriptions: Evidence from Denmark,” Economics Letters.
Bennedsen, Morten, Birthe Larsen, Ian Schmutte, and Daniela Scur (2023), “The Effect of Preserving Job Matches During a Crisis,” Labour Economics.
Kilström, Matilda, Birthe Larsen, and Elisabet Olme (2023), “Temporary Refugee Protection and Labour Market Outcomes,” Empirical Economics.
Bennedsen, Morten, Birthe Larsen, and Jiayi Wei (2023), “Wage Transparency and the Gender Pay Gap: A Survey,” Journal of Economic Surveys.
Larsen, Birthe (2022), “Comment on K. Huttunen & H. Pesola: COVID-19 and Labour Market Outcomes by Gender in Finland,” in H. Flam and O. N. Skans (eds.), Nordic Economic Policy Review 2022: COVID-19 Effects on the Economy in the Nordics. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers, pp. 222–223.
Bennedsen, Morten, Birthe Larsen, Ian Schmutte, and Daniela Scur (2020), “Preserving Job Matches During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Firm-Level Evidence on the Role of Government Aid,” Covid Economics, 27.
Amore, Mario D., Morten Bennedsen, Birthe Larsen, and Philip Rosenbaum (2019), “CEO Education and Corporate Environmental Footprint,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 94, 254–273.
Kolm, Ann-Sofie, and Birthe Larsen (2019), “Underground Activities and Labour Market Performance,” International Tax and Public Finance, 26(1), 41–70.
Kolm, Ann-Sofie, and Birthe Larsen (2016), “Informal Unemployment and Education,” IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 5, Article 8.
Waisman, Gisela, and Birthe Larsen (2016), “Income, Amenities and Negative Attitudes,” IZA Journal of Migration, 5, Article 8.
Larsen, Birthe, and Gisela Waisman (2016), “Labour Market Performance Effects of Discrimination and Loss of Skill,” Economic Inquiry, 54(3), 1574–1595.
Filges, Trine, John Kennes, Birthe Larsen, and Torben Tranæs (2011), “Labour Market Programmes and the Equity-Efficiency Trade-off,” Journal of Macroeconomics, 33, 738–753.
Alstadsæter, Annette, Ann-Sofie Kolm, and Birthe Larsen (2008), “Tax Effects on Unemployment and the Choice of Educational Type,” European Journal of Political Economy, 24(1), 107–122.
Kolm, Ann-Sofie, and Birthe Larsen (2006), “Wages, Unemployment and the Underground Economy,” in Jonas Agell and Peter Birch Sørensen (eds.), Tax Policy and Labour Market Performance. MIT Press.
Filges, Trine, and Birthe Larsen (2005), “Stick, Carrot and Skill Acquisition,” The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 107(3), 495–519.
Filges, Trine, and Birthe Larsen (2004), “The Impact of Youth Unemployment Policy: A Shift of Workers into the Skilled Labour Force,” Labour, 18(3), 379–414.
Kolm, Ann-Sofie, and Birthe Larsen (2003), “Social Norm, the Informal Sector and Unemployment,” FinanzArchiv, 59(3), 407–424.
Larsen, Birthe (2001), “Minimum Wages, Technological Progress and Loss of Skill,” European Economic Review, 45(8), 1521–1544.
Filges, Trine, and Birthe Larsen (2000), “Insiders versus Outsiders and Endogenous Search,” in Bunzel et al. (eds.), Panel Data and Structural Labour Market Models. Elsevier Science.